Why did you make History of Japan first, though you wrote material for History of the U.S.?
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