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An Intriguing Start
Wolfjess,
Yet again you have come up with an interesting preise that is pulling me in. I love the story and look forward to more. I do hope, however, that Tony Watanabe had no familial relationship with late unlamented Chu Watanabe who met her demise at the hands of Maria DeMarco towards the end of Interpol Heartburn.
D & D
D & D is alive and well...lol
Great job like always
HUZZAH!
Yay! another wolfjess story very good. I enjoy your stories :)
I noticed a few typos where autocorrect and spellcheck failed you.
“Um… yeah. No office ma’am." (assuming you meant offence)
"replacement in signal combat.” (single)
"She had a signal, thought" (single)
Autocorrect & spellcheck
When I first started reading Jess's stories, I learned that this was Jess's style of writing. It annoyed me at first as the content of the story was very good and the spelling and grammar was letting it down. I realised that I had to build a bridge and just get over it. Once I did that, I started to look forward to how a particular phrase, sentence or paragraph might look.
I have found that when I read the stories again via Kindle, that the typo's and grammatical errors had been edited.
Robyn B
Sydney
my greatest problem
One of my greatest problems with my writing is using Google translate. While I have been in the English speaking West for more than 30yrs I still have a great many problems with the language. I know that I have pointed it out in the past, but English is not my first language. It is my 7th. So please forgive the spelling and grammar errors. Me and my editors try our best to catch them before I post any chapters.
May the peace and happiness of the Goddess keep and protect you
as always your humble outlaw
Jessie Wolf
Don't sweat the small stuff- like English
Wolfjess,
When it comes to English, which is my native language, I tend to be very judgmental about poor grammar and spelling from supposedly educated native speakers of English; their bad grammar, and spelling is, to my eyes, like nails on a chalkboard is to my ears. Although my causal writing is not perfect, words and language are the stock in trade for my profession and I abhor imprecise language. That said, for people who are not native speakers of English- even if they have been here for decades- I cut a lot more slack. I do this because I know just how screwed up English is as a language. Here is a link to an article on just how screwed up English is as a language (no Roy Rogers song, I promise):
https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-f...
My father was born and raised in the United States; English was his first language. My mother was an Eastern European emigre who arrived at age eight and English was her 3rd language and even though she was spoke English with the same neutral accent my father had, they didn't use English in quite the same way. There were subtle differences in sentence construction that, to me and my siblings, hinted that our mother didn't consistently think in English- she internally constructed in Russian or Ukranian and then spoke in English. For me it was crazy making to hear conversations between two people speaking the same language, in the same accent, but with two distinct grammatical constructions and word usage.
I judge a work of fiction on its merits. Is the story engaging? Is the story coherent? Does it draw me in and can I relate somehow to the story and/ or its characters? Your stories all stand on their respective merits and have a unique feel to them. They are a reflection of you and your sensibilities. FWIW, I tried cleaning up one of your stories just to see how it would read, and the 'properly' edited version didn't have the right feel to it; to be blunt, it sucked. So just keep doing what you've been doing and don't worry about it.
grammar, and spelling crumbles before translation program
There is an old Romanian proverb about language. Fiecare limbă trebuie să se înclemă în timp cu mintea nativă. Each tongue must waggle in time with the native mind. I have always kept the proverb in mind when I become angry over the mistakes that google translate, Rimfire, or any of the other translation programs make of my writing. As a Network Tech and Manager, I have always felt that translation programs should be Beta tested by someone who actually uses the damned things. Not a bunch of University professors in tweed coats and by-focal glasses who never actually use the damned things. Binele pentru nimic nenorocit fiii unui porc prostituție.
May the peace and happiness of the Goddess keep and protect you
as always your humble outlaw
Jessie Wolf
Excellent start!
I’m absolutely in love with your concept and execution of this story! As others have mentioned, I can see concepts of D&D in it with the nine alignments, but so much Japanese culture, both historic and pop, and it thrills me to no end! This is certainly one story I am looking forward to read more of!
Here we go again!
It's another story universe by my favorite author! Have enjoyed everything you have written and this one is going to be deep with all the tradition and elements just in the opening chapter.
I noticed the spell check errors as well, but I noticed another.
"One for each of the other Neutral alignments. Air for Law, Fire for Evil, Water for Chaos, and Air for Good."
Air is listed twice, was the first one to be Earth?
"Laughter is the best medicine, you can't O.D. and the refills are free!" -Rob Paulson the voice of Yacko Warner
POINK!
*author sits down at desk and pounds forehead into keyboard* Sorry about that. Yes Earth was supposed to be listed first. I'll get that corrected now. As for the D&D elements let just say that they are there but not the main focus. I will tell everyone now. I'm going to have fun by taking from Steampunk, AD&D, and a few other RPGs. All that I have had fun playing in my youth. I know that 3 of the RPGs that I will be using are no longer around. Mainly because of the fact they weren't PC enough to continue. (i.e. Pandora, and Cyber Wars)
May the peace and happiness of the Goddess keep and protect you
as always your humble outlaw
Jessie Wolf
Lynn
Being transformed to a miko probably wasn't in the occupational hazard description in the job offer. >:-> She should sue her employer for damages. Oh, wait, that's not possible anymore. :-p
Great chapter, again.
And then... BAM!
Admittedly, I wasn't sure about this one until Tony began translating the kojiki. I got hooked pretty quick after that. The geek in me loves the DnD good, neutral, and evil part, but it's the elemental bit that really got me for personal reasons. I'm completely sold on the story now. Where's chapter 2?! :)
Looks like
I have a new addiction.
This is going to be interesting.
I have a very large dvd collection of the olde Japanese movies we used to watch on TV... also the Chinese ones.. All with English sub-titles..
I can't wait to see how this plays out.
Japanese, not Romanian?
Interesting, exotic story line.
Thank you.
Gwen san
Based of a 1988 Pandora RPG adventure
back when I was stationed in Korea with the 2nd ID I was introduce to AD&D (1st addition) and a few other RPG's. Anyway one of the RPG's we played to pass the time was called Pandora. One of the classes was the mage/samurai. That was one of the problems with the Pandora RPG. It was WAY too complicated. For example the characters sheet had 20 Primary Abilities. Not to mention that your class and race was based on the roll of a D20. As you can see the game was extreme complex. Anyway three of the few adventure packs for Pandora were Japanese Campaigns. All 3 were based on the Edo period. I always loved to play those Campaigns packs. I was truly saddened when Rocket Gaming stopped producing the Pandora line. Even though the character sheets were complicated the game itself was fun to play and the wide range of classes was assume. There were five main classes, warrior, mage, priest, and rogue. those five classes each had five main sub classes, with some of those sub classes had two or three specialty classes.
May the peace and happiness of the Goddess keep and protect you
as always your humble outlaw
Jessie Wolf
Very interesting concept......
And a lot of background to take in for one chapter! I can’t wait to see where this goes!
So Tony, or should I say Chiyoko, needs to find her four sisters first - and then organize them to defend against the five Dragon Kings. I wonder if the two former professors will be of any assistance in doing that?
This would make a great anime’!
D. Eden
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Ahh another Wolf Jess story
Ahh another Wolf Jess story to get lost in. Thanks for writing.
Interesting
This is an interesting start to a story. If she is neutral why was she enjoying being cruel.
hugs :)
Michelle SidheElf Amaianna
Grat beginnings
Another brilliant tale from Jess. The number of favourable comments are testament to the quality of her stories that never cease to engage the reader.
If Engish is not her native language, you could have fooled me. Apart from the occassional gramatical error or out of place word, which could easily be an artifact from a spellchecker, the stories express an understanding of the language that many native speakers do not have.
The story? I love it! Well thought out, lots of depth of characters and a great story line. I look forward t the rest of it.
Will
"this has been one fucked up first day at work."
I'd say so!
Paid the price
Taking items they shouldn't have, then trying to get Tony into their ploy, the two doctors paid the price when Tony awoke the goddess.
His dream of being an archeologist all changed with what he did in the vault, and turned into something immensely more than he could ever imagine.
Others have feelings too.