Q: Why did you make History of Japan first, though you wrote material for History of the U.S.?
A: history of the united states petered out during the writing process. it was going great, and very exciting, but it was shaping up to be a bit imbalanced, because i already knew way too much about certain regions, and i didn't know how to keep the rest of it in balance. it was my first try, so i didn't really know what i was doing. then later on when i was ready to take another shot at it, i realized that i needed to pick a totally random topic where i had no prior knowledge. and i knew if that worked then i could probably do any topic