A storyteller

Many years now I have been creating fantasy stories in which our world is connected with another somehow and the character has to close the portal. Each story is created from a song I heard and liked the story and the message it gave me. I don't remember most since there are too many to do so but I do remember some I created in my mind this year. I intend to post them in my blog so the ones that see them may tell me their opinion. I have told many of my stories to my family and I guess I'm old enough for them to tell me if I'm good or I just waste my precious teenage years that I could spent in finding myself. They all (separately) told me about the same. I have a lot of imagination and with the help of video games, fantasy novels and anime it almost reaches perfection in picturing it. However they say that I lack writing skill and a little self expression which means that the stories are really good but not the way I'm telling them. The way my speech says one of my stories it doesn't sound like a fantasy action adventure at all. It sounds like a fairy tale for children. Writing those stories is making them a little better but still as I mentioned above I lack writing skill (for writing fantasy novels). I just hope that using this blogspot will help me get better in this. I will post some stories and shall wait for comments.

Learning a difficult language

For months I've been trying to learn and speak Japanese. I have many dictionaries and watch anime with Japanese dubs and English subs. I also found speaking lessons in a site (I'm not spoiling the fun of searching them yourselves by telling you the site I downloaded them from) and try my best to master at least the speech because the writing needs too many years and I'm just too impatient at the moment for that. I have learned a few words and expressions or phrases well enough to use them often the right moment. Maybe some will ask: Why Japanese? Can't you do something easier like French or Spanish or Italian? Well the answer is that my mother language is also a difficult one (with the difference that it is harder to learn the speech) and that is why I'm fascinated by learning to speak difficult tongues. Now, the reason for choosing Japanese over Chinese is simple and quite reasonable for those who know me: It is more pleasant to my ears using a language that flows like a river and touches your ears gently like the wind (if spoken also gently). The Chinese language has many similarities with mine. While someone can express himself with only one word in Japanese he needs at least three if he speaks Chinese. Also if spoken by girls it's really cute - like cats which I really love - and makes you wanna hear that voice with this tongue again. This let's say small obsession with Japanese came when I first saw anime in their first dub version (Japanese). It became another small passion of me. Now I have to go so...sayonara (goodbye)!!! :-P

My distand dreams

You may find it weird (but probably not surprising, since my blog title says it all) but when I dream I'm not myself at all. I don't have any memories of my life while I do have memories of the past of the character I'm supposed to be. My dreams are more than realistic to me. I can feel everything apart from injuries (of course). It feels like my soul travels through time and space to reach someone to my image in another world. Each time the world I'm transferred to is different and either the character lives in an era of technology and science or in a world full of veins of magic flowing within it. Some crazy times it's both. When I dream I'm not me at all, I'm that other girl that lives over there until someone from this world touches me or wakes me up with loud voices. Note that if no one wakes me up and happens to have one of those dreams I stay in my dreams until the end of the day shown in my dream.

The story in my dreams begins exactly when I go to sleep, meaning my age and image. However while I'm supposed to have only the memory of my actions in the dream I also have memories of the character's past from the moment I dream to the moment I forget the dream (that could also mean never) and that freaks me out a little. It's like my soul and body (image and personality) is reborn in other worlds (with different abilities each time) and the original (yes - mine :P) tries to make contact with them.

Of course what I wrote here might sound creepy, crazy, or just idiotic philosophical thoughts over the mystery called "dream" because I read a lot of fantasy books and play lots of video games. Well they might be but being realistic trying to find scientific explanations over dreams is - for me - even worse than the above (no offense).

I hope you're not too tired of reading this.

Another book finished

I just started this blog thingie and I don't think I'll be good at it but anyway...I started it and now have to use it. I just finished reading a Forgotten Realms series book written by R.A. Salvatore from the Legacy of the Drow series. I mean the first book titled "Legacy". It was weird but still better than the rest of the series with Drizzt as the main character (I exclude the very first one titled "Homeland" since for me it was the best of the best). There was fighting in every-and I mean every single one-chapter. There were also a a few points where you say "what the ...(I'm not gonna write the word)?". I'm not gonna say those points cause I may become a spoiler for someone. I didn't like the ending, though. It was too much of characters crying or having flashbacks like many other points in the book. Now maybe some of you may thing:"O-Kay...and what do you want to tell us with this?". Nothing in particular. I just write it so some may read the book if they like Fantasy Novels. Also because I want to show my interest in this kind of thing so I may take suggestions from others. Well...now it's...yes, 2 a.m. and goodnight e-blogger cause I have to go to work tomorrow...err...today.