Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Aeria Gloris
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Roleni-chan: I was originally put off One Piece because I thought the style was too close to Dragon Ball, which I refuse to watch. I don't know why, but it's not something I can settle down to. A friend of mine has lent me the first bit of Sailor Moon and wants me to watch it, but I'm still not sure if I will, especially as he says it'll take a good ten episodes to get into. Ten episodes is a lot of time...

The minutes aren't that important; it's the words that matter more ^_^

Kei: Thank you ^_^

Answers lieth below.

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I recently bought the entire Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex series, and it's annoying because I haven't much moey left but I really want the second series even though I've not even finished watching this one yet. It's really, really good. I'd always discounted it just because, which is always a bad reason to ignore something if everyone else seems to like it.

Anyway, the answers to the questions!

Kei: What do you feel is the most special thing about your country?

I suppose this country's history is what is most special to me about it. It's not always a pleasant history (especially where other countries are involved), but it's quite illustrious, and I always feel very proud of this country's achievements and how we've managed to get where we are despite being so small. I always get annoyed when people try to wipe over our heritage with historical inaccuracies or careful omission of certain facts. Not everything in a country's history is something to be proud of, but just pretending that it never happened is only going to leave the same mistakes to occur in the future. I think, on the whole, we're a very sensible country, if not being run as efficiently as we should be.

One problem the country does have, probably as a result of its history, is that people generally tend to keep to themselves and not spontaneously talk to anyone. I noticed in America that people weren't afraid to just strike up a conversation, but it's so hard to find an acceptable place to do that in England. Even if you're having a brief chat to a kiosk operator it almost feels like it's scripted unlessyou can pick on something very specific to talk about. I don't know; British reservedness is a funny thing. Whether it's to do with our history or not I'm not sure. Perhaps we've evolved to not speak unless absolutely necessary :p

Roleni-chan: What inspired you to act and write your own story?

Um... acting probably comes from the games I used to play when I was younger. My sisters and I (not together- first me and my older sister, and then me and my younger sister) would play a lot with our toys and construct these really elaborate games and stories for each of the characters we had. They were amazing, heh ^_^ And at any point we'd reached the end of a massive story campaign we'd start the whole story over again in a different way, perhaps changing a couple of the relationships, or the setting, or something like that. It's that kind of escapism and practice in character development and generally learning to play as someone else (and we had a lot of toys, so there were a lot of different personalities) that first got me into the habit of acting and forming a story.

Later on, I joined the school drama club as a result of wanting to follow a friend around, and learned that in terms of acting, I'd be up for almost anything and my inhibitions weren't actually that much of a problem when I was on stage. It was great for me as a naturally shy boy to find somewhere I could act really outward and not worry about the repercussions.

During this I was always thinking about my own stories and characters I admired (particularly Fox McCloud of the Starfox series- Disney's Robin Hood had a MASSIVE influence on me in childhood) and what situations I would put them in if I had control over what happened to them. Then I started writing fanfictions when I got in touch with my first penpal, whom I had a crush on. Through that I learnt about Pokemon, then Digimon, and then I joined OtakuBoards and only started writing more... and it goes from there, really ^_^

I finally decided that I wanted to write a book when I found a story I really wanted to tell, and just putting it on the 'net wouldn't have been enough. I'd had the story in my mind for a while, and every so often I'd think of a new scene to put in there and start to string it together. After about threeyears of story development, I wrote down a detailed plot outline and eventually started actually writing it. It's funny how these things turn out when you look at how they develop ^_^

Are you attending any conventions later on?
I'm going to the London Expo on Saturday, and I'll go to the one next May too, probably as well as another in July- the Japan Expo. Whether or not I go to another in the US I'll have to decide. I know I'd like to go to Anime Expo again. That would be cool ^_^

Before, you were talking about your pets in my site, what other pets do you own?

I have three dogs:

Romulus, a black standard poodle who's coming on for eleven/twelve years old. He's the boss dog, and loves playing when he's in the mood. He is getting very old for a standard poodle, though; although he looks well and appears young in spirit they only tend to live until they're twelve or so. He's been wonderful, though.

Merlin, another standard poodle, chocolate brown, who's about eight. He's a complete wimp, really, and acts a lot more like a cat than a dog in the way he comes up and rubs himself against you. He's... a little difficult- he doesn't always come when you call him and doesn't play as much as the other two. But he's very affectionate.

Taiko is our youngest- he's just about two, a crossbreed of mostly collie and golden retriever. He's hyperactive, but absolutely gorgeous ^_^ I love him to pieces. Funnily enough, he respects Romulus but won't listen to Merlin at all, so we may have some disagreements about hierarchy later on. I'll let you know how that turns out :p

Any more questions greatly received!

The CIA are coming to my house!
Yes, that's Christie's Intruder Alarms. We're having it all checked out.

In the meantime I'm going to write as much as I can today. I wrote another two pages last night, so I'm quite pleased with that. Overall progress:

Words: 42,790
Minutes: 26,906+

There's a lot more to come; I was worried that it was looking shorter the more I wrote, but I definitely think it'll be way over another 20,000 words till it's finished. Let's hope it's not too long, though, heh.

See you soon.
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