Two posts in one week? I'm on a roll!
As you may, or may not, have noticed, I got bored with my blog background so I changed it again. I nearly peed myself I got so excited when I found out I could change the font on some of the things on here! If I was a techno-mo-magic smarty pants, I probably would have found out that sooner, but alas, I have a life (well, as far as you know). If I could change all the fonts (I probably could, i just don't know how to) I would, like every day.
Me and fonts, we are like this. . . (You can't see, but I'm crossing my fingers on both my hands) I don't take the subject of fonts lightly. I can spend just as long choosing the font and format of an essay as I will writing it. That's why I like my word processing software, Pages, over MS Word because I have twice the font selection.
I'm such a font nerd, I have managed to write three paragraphs on the mere topic of this amazing and diverse subject.
Toss away the Times New Roman and Calabri default users, and explore the fine curves of Baskerville, or the chic blocks of Copperplate.
How many normal people do you know that can make up a poetry style sentence about fonts? (If you actually know someone like that, hook me up!)
My New Background:
I don't know what it is with me, but I have the need to change things often. I will go into crazy monkey-mode if I can't change the furniture arrangement of my room, or the color of my walls, or anything else that is on my mind on that second without planning it or thinking it over, several times a year.
Oh, the curses of an artsy fartsy person like me has to deal with.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Book Review Corner
It's time for another fabulous book review from the greatest book reader, writer, and reviewer of all time -- Me!
Ashes
Ilsa Bick
This book was pretty awesome. It has all the aspects that I have been into lately: action, adventure, and post-apacolypism. I always give every book recommended to me a chance of 60 pages before I quite or finish the book. This was one of those that almost pushed me to the limit. The first 30 or so pages weren't so good (I felt like the author tried a bit to hard) but weren't bad. Around a quarter way into the book it gets intense. But the thing that bothered me was that the climax -- in my opinion -- was in the middle, not the end. I read 'til the end just to find out what happens, but the book plot turned for the not as exciting.
The writing is a little weird, the paragraphs end in weird spots, there are seemingly random breaks and the don't make much sense. And it showed more than told.
Backstory Time!
In my writing class, it was drilled into me that when writing, you should show them, not tell them.
Back to the now:
Anyways, the chapter would end all suspenseful like normal, than they next chapter would pick up, like, three days later and Alex would say how the battle ended.
Should all these complaints discourage you from reading it? No!
As I said to my english teacher "The writing isn't the best, but it is definitely worth reading because of the amazing plot."
Would I recommend it to someone? Yes. Would I read the sequel? Yes. Do I love it? No. Do I like it? Yes.
Overall, I give it 3.9/5 Stars.
Now for some sad/happy(shappy?) news: my amazing english/writing class had two real live authors come by every tuesday to teach us how to be writers, and last tuesday was their last. I'm so grateful for what I've learned, but it's still sad since I looked forward to it every week.
That's about it in my life for the last 11 or so days(Is that pathetic?) Have a happy weekend and TGIF!
Ashes
Ilsa Bick
This book was pretty awesome. It has all the aspects that I have been into lately: action, adventure, and post-apacolypism. I always give every book recommended to me a chance of 60 pages before I quite or finish the book. This was one of those that almost pushed me to the limit. The first 30 or so pages weren't so good (I felt like the author tried a bit to hard) but weren't bad. Around a quarter way into the book it gets intense. But the thing that bothered me was that the climax -- in my opinion -- was in the middle, not the end. I read 'til the end just to find out what happens, but the book plot turned for the not as exciting.
The writing is a little weird, the paragraphs end in weird spots, there are seemingly random breaks and the don't make much sense. And it showed more than told.
Backstory Time!
In my writing class, it was drilled into me that when writing, you should show them, not tell them.
Back to the now:
Anyways, the chapter would end all suspenseful like normal, than they next chapter would pick up, like, three days later and Alex would say how the battle ended.
Should all these complaints discourage you from reading it? No!
As I said to my english teacher "The writing isn't the best, but it is definitely worth reading because of the amazing plot."
Would I recommend it to someone? Yes. Would I read the sequel? Yes. Do I love it? No. Do I like it? Yes.
Overall, I give it 3.9/5 Stars.
Now for some sad/happy(shappy?) news: my amazing english/writing class had two real live authors come by every tuesday to teach us how to be writers, and last tuesday was their last. I'm so grateful for what I've learned, but it's still sad since I looked forward to it every week.
That's about it in my life for the last 11 or so days(Is that pathetic?) Have a happy weekend and TGIF!
Monday, December 5, 2011
I'm back!(For now:)
So,
I haven't posted in forever, in case you haven't noticed.
I really don't know what to say. It's one of those things that you forget about, and when you try to do something about it, it just makes it worse because you're so far behind, you don't want to remind anyone that you're a failure at keeping blog.
What's new in my life:
School started. I got a new baby:D Winter came. The wind storm came and ruined my week. I got in trouble at Wal-Mart for being to charitable.
Here's a picture of my new baby! JackJack
Here they are together:
Other than that, life is as monotonous as usual.
Oh, I got my name in the paper THREE times! And they misspelled my name THREE times! Is my name Seth Baty?! Um, no! It's Seth BATZ!! With a Z! That's not even a proper typo since Z and Y are nowhere near each other on the keyboard.
Well that's my rant for today.
In other news, I am trying my hand at writing a book. I am at chapter 7, which is very impressive for me since I have the attention span of a squirrel on speed.
It doesn't have a title yet, but it's pretty freakin' awesome so far.
I even made a book trailer for it(It's not very good since I threw it together in like 10 minutes)
What do y'all think? Does it look enticing? If you want what I have(or a piece) so far, just contact me and I'd be delighted to share and hear your comments/questions.
I haven't written anything really blog-worthy yet, but I'll post when I write the summary that goes on the back of the book, or anything amazing/inspirational/life altering that I, the Magnificent, have penned.
Have a super-fantastic Monday(if you can:)
I haven't posted in forever, in case you haven't noticed.
I really don't know what to say. It's one of those things that you forget about, and when you try to do something about it, it just makes it worse because you're so far behind, you don't want to remind anyone that you're a failure at keeping blog.
What's new in my life:
School started. I got a new baby:D Winter came. The wind storm came and ruined my week. I got in trouble at Wal-Mart for being to charitable.
Here's a picture of my new baby! JackJack
Here they are together:
Other than that, life is as monotonous as usual.
Oh, I got my name in the paper THREE times! And they misspelled my name THREE times! Is my name Seth Baty?! Um, no! It's Seth BATZ!! With a Z! That's not even a proper typo since Z and Y are nowhere near each other on the keyboard.
Well that's my rant for today.
In other news, I am trying my hand at writing a book. I am at chapter 7, which is very impressive for me since I have the attention span of a squirrel on speed.
It doesn't have a title yet, but it's pretty freakin' awesome so far.
I even made a book trailer for it(It's not very good since I threw it together in like 10 minutes)
What do y'all think? Does it look enticing? If you want what I have(or a piece) so far, just contact me and I'd be delighted to share and hear your comments/questions.
I haven't written anything really blog-worthy yet, but I'll post when I write the summary that goes on the back of the book, or anything amazing/inspirational/life altering that I, the Magnificent, have penned.
Have a super-fantastic Monday(if you can:)
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