History and Word Time

[ HISTORY OF THE DAY ]
July 10: 1940. The Battle of Britain began. Germany's air force attacks the United Kingdom.

July 11: In 1914, Babe Ruth makes his debut in MLB.

[ WORD OF THE DAY ]
July 10: Music (Noun). The science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a unified rhythm, harmony, or the like.

July 11: League (noun). A gathering of entities coming together for a common purpose or goal.

Ask/Answer Myself: Part II

Going back to an old matter. In another entry, I asked these questions:

Why do I like BACCANO?
Why do I like BASILISK?
Why do I like Y + M?
Why do I think will male a good ninja story?
How to make a compelling story line/plot?
What causes negative criticism?
Why am I slow in thinking up plot (or why do I find it difficult?)

I told myself that I can't do reviews, because:
1.) I can't seem to deduce and adduce strengths and weaknesses.
2.) Not a great critical thinker
3.) Again, not good at explaining myself
4.) Opinions are subjective
5.) Bad sentence structure

Guess you could say, I can't push my face out there. Or, just can't fight.

I'd like to fix that somehow. I could start by using a simple form of defeating Writer's Block, and that is just by using an outline. Or, I can use Mapping.

Reviews should get you to either want or not want to see what you just did.

Let me first state is that I believe that I get rarely dissapointed. I don't think there's anything in the world that I read or watched that made me say, "This-is-terrible!".

Ninja, and Futaro Yamada's ninja stories (well, mainly the comic adaptations Basilisk and Y+M by Masaki Segawa) are what inspired me to do the Seishin series.

For Y+M and Basilisk, I can easily say that a couple of the comics' strengths are Violence (Blood and Gore) and Art. How do I explain my reasons?

How about the novel BACCANO? I thought I wouldn't like a story with alchemists and every dude from the criminal underground getting indirectly connected to each other. It's history aspect, since it started in the 1930s, may have something to do with it. So I'll be thinking about that too.

The Terms "rant" and "ramble".

Just something out of the blue because of the tags and my friends list.

RAMBLE
"Ramble" is from a word that means "to roam". Ramble is an instance of someone talking at length without direction. It also means to move or stroll without directly, casually.

RANT
From the Dutch word ranten and randen, meaning to talk nonsense or foolishly. "Randen" is also plural for Rand, meaning "edge" or "brink".

Rant is defined as a criticism done by ranting; also a wild, incoherent, emotional articulation or to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently.

I guess that's why I rarely do it.

I ranted about teen pregnancy (because I'm affected directly no, I'm not a mom), stupid actions (Pff! Can I be more specific?), and criminal acts mostly out of emotion, but that should mostly be it.

Topic: Futaro Yamada (山田風太郎)'s Ninpochou Series (Wikipedia)

Putting down this important note: I'm not fluent in Japanese and I'm not a translator, but I will try to make sense of some of it using a few online dictionaries. What I translate isn't completely clear, but I can make sense out of it.

( Japanese )

How this is read
Each paragraph (or sentence) is numbered. I list the numbers with a translation, and if it's a paragraph, the dash is a sentence.

( Translation attempt (Japanese; incomplete) )

Hmm, Question/Comment BOX + Ramble

I think Anonymous comments are allowed.

So, this is the little area for questions you want to ask me related to my works on fanfiction.net and Fictionpress.net (will be linked from profiles). I'm not into answers personal questions since I don't think I have anything impressive to reveal.

Game-related questions, such as for Monster Rancher (Farm) are possible.

Comments are okay too.

At first, I thought "Try a FAQ?"? When is a FAQ demanded? Do I have to be popular? Is this egotistical?

Maybe this will provide a good connection.

IMO, I'm glad that there is a person or two reading what I uploaded. I am thankful, even though the old Howl of Gray Wolf was badly written and I think I'm far from being a good writer, since I'm confused a lot. I keep asking myself, "What constitutes good writing?"

I look back at some chapters and think, "that doesn't look right".

Also, if you get a ton of positive reactions, you'll have trouble handling the opposite. If I'm told to have awesome stories commonly, then that means I'll stay on that rhythm for a long time, thinking that it's correct. Recently, I'm schooled on grammar, particularly word choice and expositional redundancy.

My tweets

• Mon, 01:29: History and Word Time http://j.mp/pkT8kj
• Mon, 02:01: Ask/Answer Myself: Part II http://j.mp/r70gBN
• Mon, 02:15: The Terms "rant" and "ramble". http://j.mp/rpEPmV
• Mon, 02:25: Topic: Futaro Yamada (山田風太郎)'s Ninpochou Series (Wikipedia) http://j.mp/mUySTH
• Mon, 02:45: Hmm, Question/Comment BOX + Ramble http://j.mp/qzT938