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re: Writing my first novel

Posted by LSUAlum2001 on 5/19/26 at 8:37 pm to
That’s the plan if this goes well. I’m former Navy and a beach/water guy.

WW’s roster is insane right now..

Posted by LSUAlum2001 on 5/19/26 at 6:39 pm
COMMITMENTS:

RJ Luis Jr. (G-League Celtics)- Last year of college: 18.2 ppg, 7.2 reb, 2.0 ast LINK [PENDING LEGAL ACTION]

Mo Dioubate (Kentucky)- 8.8 ppg, 5.5 reb, 1.0 ast LINK

Marcio Santos ( International / Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv)- 7.3 ppg, 2.4 reb, 0.7 ast LINK

Divine Ugochukwu (Michigan State)- 5.1 ppg, 1.5 reb, 1.5 ast LINK

Abdi Bashir Jr. (K-state)- 13.2 ppg, 2.2 reb, 2.3 ast LINK

Austin Nunez (UTSA)- 9.8 ppg, 2.1 reb, 2.8 ast LINK

Saliou Niang ( International / Virtus Bologna)- 7.9 ppg, 5.0 reb, 1.7 apg LINK

Brice Dessert ( International / Anadolu Efes)- 7.2 ppg, 3.0 reb, 0.5 ast LINK

LSU STACKED
SEC frickED

Someone check The Pirate King to see if has offed himself.
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TWO ARMS, TWO LEGS… LONG TAILS LIKE A LIZARD! 7 FEET TALL! ??


The Gorn? We are fricked.

re: Writing my first novel

Posted by LSUAlum2001 on 5/19/26 at 8:56 am to
My goal was for the book to read like a movie: maybe it doesn’t have enough detail, maybe it does. I’ll find out. I’ll set the scene and go, not huge swaths of texts where you have to read it several times to get through it.

Here is an excerpt from an underwater fight scene. Main characters are Mercer & Rourke.

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The black-clad diver came through the blue water like a torpedo. Fast. Deliberate. Deadly.

Mercer saw the weapon immediately, a compact underwater speargun modified with compressed gas propulsion instead of elastic bands. Military-grade. Built for killing divers, not hunting fish.

The attacker leveled it directly at Mercer. Rourke fired first.

The muffled underwater crack of the pistol sounded strangely small beneath the sea, but the round streaked through the water column trailing cavitation bubbles toward the approaching diver.

The Hijos operative twisted sideways with terrifying agility. The bullet missed. Then the speargun fired. The steel dart punched through the compartment opening so hard it buried itself six inches into the wreck bulkhead inches from Mercer’s head.

Mercer jerked backward instantly. The attacker surged closer. Not alone. Two more dark shapes appeared behind him out of the blue haze beyond the reef edge.

Three divers. All armed. All moving with disciplined formation. Mercer’s pulse pounded inside his ears. This wasn’t intimidation. This was an execution attempt.

Rourke kicked sideways across the reef and fired twice more while using the coral shelf for partial cover. One round clipped the lead diver’s shoulder tank, bursting a stream of silver bubbles into the water.

The diver barely reacted.

Mercer yanked the black document case free from the cargo straps and shoved it into a clipped recovery bag on his harness.

Suddenly, the wreck shuddered violently. One of the Hijos divers had planted something beneath the hull. A muffled underwater detonation erupted across the reef shelf. The blast wave hit Mercer like a truck. The compartment exploded into splintered debris and sediment. Visibility vanished instantly into a boiling cloud of white sand, shattered coral, and air bubbles.

Mercer slammed hard into the compartment ceiling as wreckage collapsed around him. His regulator nearly tore free. Pain shot through his shoulder. Outside, Rourke disappeared completely into the chaos.

Mercer couldn’t see anything. Couldn’t hear anything beyond the violent roar of bubbles and the pounding of his own heartbeat. Instinct took over. Move.

He kicked hard through the collapsing wreckage just as a section of cabin wall crashed into the compartment behind him. The entire stern structure was coming apart. Mercer burst free into open water.

Visibility remained awful. Less than six feet now inside the drifting sediment cloud.

Shapes moved everywhere. Impossible to identify. Then a dark figure emerged directly in front of him. Mercer reacted instantly, driving forward with his dive knife. The figure grabbed his wrist mid-strike.

Not Rourke.

The Hijos diver slammed into him bodily, both men spiraling across the reef in a violent tangle of hoses, tanks, and limbs. The diver moved incredibly well underwater. Military trained.

Mercer trapped the man’s knife arm and smashed his dive mask against a coral outcropping. Cracks spread instantly across the tempered glass. The diver retaliated by driving a combat blade toward Mercer’s ribs. Mercer caught the wrist barely inches from impact.

Both men rolled across the reef edge locked together while bubbles exploded upward around them. The Hijos operative headbutted Mercer hard enough to blur his vision. Mercer answered with brutal force, ramming his thumb beneath the edge of the diver’s damaged mask seal.

Seawater flooded inside immediately. The operative jerked violently in panic as saltwater hit his eyes and nose. Mercer ripped the knife free and stabbed downward into the diver’s buoyancy bladder. Air erupted outward in a violent silver torrent. The diver instantly lost stability control. He spun backward uncontrollably toward deeper water while clawing desperately at his harness. Gone into the haze.

re: Writing my first novel

Posted by LSUAlum2001 on 5/18/26 at 11:23 pm to
I’m about 3/4 through on mine. Roughly 31 chapters in. If I had to guess, about 300 pages right now.

I’m in the end game now.

After the initial draft is complete, I’ll probably print it in manuscript form and edit it by hand first.

Sometimes just staring at a screen isn’t good enough.

I’ll probably go Amazon KDP when it’s ready.

Mine is: Spanish treasure, Nazis and a Secret organization.
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So instead of a drone operator you get a 15 year old to "play" a game, he is actually smoking targets and paying you for the opportunity and never knows the difference.


That's Enders Game, brother.
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We were saying this about baseball during football season last year. Careful what you wish for.


It’s the main reason I started this thread, because those baseball fans saying it became insufferable.
Weekly bump.

We go sub 100 days some time next week!

:lsu:
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Will the parish vote us down? We are outnumbered.


The people outside the City of St George limits should have zero input on the SG amendment.
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I don’t know of anyone who has voted for Letlow


I've met her.

While she is a nice person, she's in over her head.

re: Best LSU Saint?

Posted by LSUAlum2001 on 5/16/26 at 8:36 pm to
Total Saints career?

Eric Martin.

Year Team Games Games Started Catches Yards YPC Longest TDs
1985 NO 16 12 35 522 14.9 50 4
1986 NO 16 11 37 675 18.2 84 5
1987 NO 15 11 44 778 17.7 67 7
1988 NO 16 16 85 1,083 12.7 40 7
1989 NO 16 15 68 1,09016.053 8
1990 NO 16 16 63 912 14.5 58 5
1991 NO 16 13 66 803 12.2 30 4
1992 NO 16 11 68 1,041 15.3 52 5
1993 NO 16 13 66 950 14.4 54 3
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Mother in law chimmed in and said she her bad things about Flemming


So she has heard bad things about Fleming?

From who? Cassidy and Letlow?
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Afraid they’re too late


It's never too late if the quiet majority rises up.
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Keir Starmer


His name alone reeks of a one world government; letting foreigners dictate the current and future path for Britain.
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They'd be livid if a man said 4: Dress size no higher than 4 Body count no higher than 4


..or the 6-6-6 for them

6 figure salary
6 or less dress size
6 or less body count
So when we are going after the Learing Centers and 10000% increase in autism diagnosed cases for Somalian kids in Minnesota?
I stopped carrying a 60 degree
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A), it isn’t his job, and B), his opinion is no more important than anyone elses. Eminently sensible, right?


..which means BBT is a true conservative and doesn’t want to get black balled by far left liberals/Hollywood.
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Breaking my own rules here because I think this dude is probably the type of fake influencer I hate...

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ChudTheBuilder


Did she call it racist when they redrew the district last election that cost Garrett Graves his seat to Cleo Fields?