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<\/a><\/p>\nAlright, fine, so that’s actually Waylander from David Gemmell’s Drenai series, but hey, a man can dream, right?<\/p>\n
So anyways, here’s what the beard REALLY looks like:<\/p>\n
I figured it would be good to keep it short, and trim around the neck and cheek; kind of like Riker<\/a>, actually (no joke–his look was kind of what I was shooting for).<\/p>\n One of the funny things I’ve noticed is how many girls have actually complimented me on this thing.\u00a0 It struck me as quite a surprise, because from previous conversations with the opposite sex, growing a beard is something of a kiss (or lack thereof) of death.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, I’ve gotten as many or more compliments from women as I have from men.\u00a0 How does that work?<\/p>\n I guess that girls are opposed to beards as an idea, but (like most guys) they just don’t know what they want until they see it.<\/p>\n Probably the most hilarious about-face was from my sister Kate (who just started a new blog<\/a>, hey!).\u00a0 When I was contemplating growing it earlier this winter, she kept telling me not to–that it would look hideous, that no girl would ever want to date me, that it would ruin my social life, etc.\u00a0 Well, guess what she said today?<\/p>\n Me: <\/strong>so you like my beard, eh? So anyways, what do you think?\u00a0 Should it stay, or should it go?\u00a0 I’m kind of partial to it, but I’m open to hearing any contrary opinions, if there are any.<\/p>\n In unrelated news, I am sooo<\/em> freaking close to finishing WAFH 2.0, and it orders of magnitude better than the first draft.\u00a0 Still, it needs a lot of work, so I’m looking for first readers to help me out with it.\u00a0 If you’d be willing to help out, please let me know (and please, only people I know in real life–as much as I love you for reading this blog, I’d prefer not to hand out my work to complete strangers) (also, some of you have already emailed me and I haven’t gotten back to you yet, but don’t worry–I haven’t forgotten.\u00a0 Expect an email about it sometime in the next week).<\/p>\n If you’d like to volunteer as a first reader for WAFH, I’d ask you to finish it by April 15 (tax day, joy!).\u00a0 My next project is Edenfall,<\/em> and I expect that to take me at least a month and a half.\u00a0 I’m really hoping to get WAFH publishable before the end of the year, so I’ll probably start the next draft by May.<\/p>\n In other totally unrelated news, I’m going to write Edenfall 1.0<\/em> entirely in longhand.\u00a0 Crazy?\u00a0 Perhaps.\u00a0 I’ve got the notebook for it, though, and did some arts and crafts with it over the weekend–pictures to follow.\u00a0 Also, I’ll be sure to let you know what it’s like to write a novel in longhand; it should be interesting.<\/p>\n Aaand that’s about it for now.\u00a0 Gotta write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In case you didn’t know, I’ve been experimenting a bit with facial hair recently.\u00a0 I figure, hey, I’m no longer a BYU student, so I might as well, right?\u00a0 Well, the results are in, and I must say I’m quite pleased. I mean, check out how awesome I look: Alright, fine, so that’s actually Waylander… Continue reading Beard pics and other updates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,509],"tags":[526,133,158,33],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds","category-edenfall","tag-beards","tag-family","tag-first-readers","tag-girls-and-dating","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-18P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n
\noh ye of little faith
\nKate:<\/strong> yes
\n…
\nKate:<\/strong> I like it
\nI think it makes you look good
\nyou need to be sure to keep it trimmed
\nit looks good
\nI’m really surprised
\nMe:<\/strong> hehehe
\nKate:<\/strong> I eat my worrds
\nMe:<\/strong> so why are you so surprised?
\nKate:<\/strong> hahaaha<\/p>\n