User blog:Cdc1998/Just Curious...

With the holidays inbound I wanted to wish everyone here on the wiki happy holidays! Hopefully everything has been going well for you all and continues to go well. Before I start back up my spring semester of college in the next few weeks I wanted to ask you all a few questions while I have the time.

Has anyone seen or planning on going to see Rogue One? As a Star Wars, nerd, I was wondering what your guy's opinion is on the first of the spinoff films. Personally I really enjoyed watching it. While Empire Strikes Back will always be my favorite, this film is close to being my second favorite. I know that some people did not enjoy it due to it being more darker, although I felt that they forgot it's around the premise of a war film. I felt it was well directed, well acted, had a good score for not having John Williams as the composer, and did a good balance of serious and comical moments. My only gripes with the film were Forest Whitaker's portrayal of Saw Gerrera, and I felt it could have been a bit longer in order to gain more insight on the characters. Obviously, there will be people who don't share my opinion so if you've seen it or plan to (which I would recommend), what was your take on the film?

Have any of you seen Game of Thrones? A good friend of mine introduced me to the series around September and I've been in love with it ever since. I finished it earlier this month and now I literally want to go back and re-watch the six seasons again! The atmosphere, the world, the characters, almost everything about the series intrigues me. I don't think I've been so invested into a series and it's characters in a long time. Currently, I'm somewhat-patiently waiting for season 7 to come out next year, tempted on reading the books, and wishing my college offered a course pertaining to the series. Have any of you seen the series (or even read the books it's adapted from)? What's your opinion on it?

Do any of you know reputable websites/magazines that could be good to publish writing pieces on? I shared some of my work with Michael that I've wrote outside of here, and would love to get it published after a couple more revisions. My issue though is I really don't know where I could go to to get it published. I'm pretty sure my college's writing magazine has a "no cursing" policy so that's out of the picture. Off hand, would any of you have some suggestions on where I could look towards?

Finally, how have you all been? How's your writing going? Got anything big planned for the holidays?

Take Care, Charles