Rambling
Explain your LiveJournal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name.
I chose my LJ name, Psyched Kagura because of its double meaning--and my guiltier reason, because of its creativity. 'Psyched' refers to a great deal of terms, although I used it for the definition: To analyze, solve, or comprehend -- a favorite pastime of mine. 'Kagura' is a Japanese name referring the ancient Shinto dancing and music. Shintoism has always interested me in the Japanese culture, hence the reason I go by this alias.
...However, a cheaper and likely more easier-to-comprehend reason is for my name is its vague reference to Sohma Kagura, a character from the series Fruits Basket. 'Psyched' can also mean 'excite emotionally'--an interesting trait of Kagura, who also happens to be one of my favorite characters.
Concerning the second part to this meme, though, I am not planning to tagging anyone on my f-list, although anyone who has never done this meme before and is still interested in doing it can still do so.
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On another note altogether, I have been noticing far too many people who have been using exposition in literature as a cheap plot device for their prose/fan fictions. With careful writing and in the hands of a good writer, exposition can be interesting and often enjoyable to read, though nevertheless, I highly urge anyone considering to use a lot of exposition in their stories to consider distributing the information as carefully as you can. This is because I have found that under the hands of a careless writer, exposition become one of the worst methods of handing out the details directly to the reader. I state now that no reader will be highly interested in a story that has ridiculous chunks of explanatory paragraphs and they may abandon it if it becomes redundant. It is usually one of the signs of poor planning as well; to maintain a far smoother and more interesting prose I advise cutting out the exposition when it is in the form of terribly long, wordy paragraphs, and then either re-wording it, or (if possible) writing it as a scene, or otherwise handling the exposition text in a more brief, concise and sprinkling it into passages at intervals in your passages.
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And now, a meme I nicked off a fellow LJ user. Give me a link to any of your older prose work, and I will give you a well-rounded and informative critique of the story after I read it. Note that this is a critique, not endless praise, and although I may point out the better points of your story, it will mainly be directed at strengthening the weakest points of your writing style and of the story itself. (Although, please know that you are not obliged to participate.)
I chose my LJ name, Psyched Kagura because of its double meaning--and my guiltier reason, because of its creativity. 'Psyched' refers to a great deal of terms, although I used it for the definition: To analyze, solve, or comprehend -- a favorite pastime of mine. 'Kagura' is a Japanese name referring the ancient Shinto dancing and music. Shintoism has always interested me in the Japanese culture, hence the reason I go by this alias.
...However, a cheaper and likely more easier-to-comprehend reason is for my name is its vague reference to Sohma Kagura, a character from the series Fruits Basket. 'Psyched' can also mean 'excite emotionally'--an interesting trait of Kagura, who also happens to be one of my favorite characters.
Concerning the second part to this meme, though, I am not planning to tagging anyone on my f-list, although anyone who has never done this meme before and is still interested in doing it can still do so.
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On another note altogether, I have been noticing far too many people who have been using exposition in literature as a cheap plot device for their prose/fan fictions. With careful writing and in the hands of a good writer, exposition can be interesting and often enjoyable to read, though nevertheless, I highly urge anyone considering to use a lot of exposition in their stories to consider distributing the information as carefully as you can. This is because I have found that under the hands of a careless writer, exposition become one of the worst methods of handing out the details directly to the reader. I state now that no reader will be highly interested in a story that has ridiculous chunks of explanatory paragraphs and they may abandon it if it becomes redundant. It is usually one of the signs of poor planning as well; to maintain a far smoother and more interesting prose I advise cutting out the exposition when it is in the form of terribly long, wordy paragraphs, and then either re-wording it, or (if possible) writing it as a scene, or otherwise handling the exposition text in a more brief, concise and sprinkling it into passages at intervals in your passages.
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And now, a meme I nicked off a fellow LJ user. Give me a link to any of your older prose work, and I will give you a well-rounded and informative critique of the story after I read it. Note that this is a critique, not endless praise, and although I may point out the better points of your story, it will mainly be directed at strengthening the weakest points of your writing style and of the story itself. (Although, please know that you are not obliged to participate.)