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Alias: hoshi-ni-onegai

Real name: this would defeat the purpose of an alias…

Location: Post Graduate School in the US

Bio: I'm a fanfiction writer that would like to one day become a writer for the real world (where the potential to get paid is just amazing). I'm not the biggest anime fan, but when it comes to devotion to a select few manga I can school your ass in knowledge. My only driving motive to be writing fanfiction is the anonymity of it. I hate people reading my writing when they know me, so 'hoshi-ni-onegai' is the only way I'll improve as a writer by getting advice from fellow peers. I live off of reviews, so please, help me survive by giving me feedback on fanfiction, and life in general. Peace out, bitches.

Interests: writing, reading, rambling, drawing, complaining, lying, procrastinating

Pet peeves: people trying to correct me about my own culture; people using the word ‘brilliant’ when they’re serious; open-mouthed chewing, general disregard for manners; bad writing (which may include my own…)

Favorite Books: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Slaughter House Five, The Awakening, Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, but really, I don’t read books that aren’t required for classes anymore (college has taken over my life)

Favorite Manga: Rurouni Kenshin, Hanazakari no Kimitachie, Yorozuya Toukaido Honpo, Bleach, Koucha Ouji, Sekai de Ichiban Daikirai, Fruits Basket, Tokyo Crazy Paradise

Old Favorites (ones I grew out of): Inuyasha, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Time Stranger Kyoko, and many more…

Favorite Characters: Rukia (Bleach), Ichigo (Bleach), Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin), Sano (Hana Kimi), Assam (Koucha Ouji), Kazuha (Sekai de Ichiban Daikirai), Kyo (Fruits Basket), Tsukasa (Tokyo Crazy Paradise), Songoku (Dragon Ball), Shinichi (Meitantei Conan), Hatori (Meitantei Conan), Shima (Yorozuya Toukaido Honpo)

The Character I wish I could be like: Kazuha (Sekai de Ichiban Daikirai)

The Character I’m most like: Mizuki (Hana Kimi)

Favorite Quotes about Writing:

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” -E.L. Doctorow (If I hadn’t found ‘Broken Pieces’ by Linay, I wouldn’t have figured out how much I love writing and would have probably gone insane)

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne (which is ironic for the author of The Scarlet Letter to say…)

“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.” -Lord Byron (I need my mind to shut up every once in a while)

“Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.” -C. Astrid Weber (I’ll one day build up the courage to have people I know read my writing… until then, I have fanfiction)

“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.” -Samuel Johnson (the amount of research that goes into each of my stories would scary you…)

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.” -Jean Luc Godard (I hope to figure out the nonlinear story line one day, I’ve only experimented with it a few times)

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” -Thomas Mann (If someone tells me that writing is easy, I know that they really don’t care about what they’re putting on paper… or they’re just super amazing and I need to be more like them)

“Writing is a product of silence.” -Carrie Latet (there is never silence in college, hence the reason why I can barely write what I want since I got here)

“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” -Samuel Johnson (A skill I’ve been trying to get better at)

“The best style is the style you don't notice.” -Somerset Maugham (my excuse for a lack of a style)

“Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.” -Goethe (As frightening as it is, this is true… you’ll find bits and pieces of my personality in my writing that I really had no intention of putting there, but realize that I do after the fact)

Status of my fanfics:

Time Changes All: complete (my first fanfiction ever, and as much as I love it, I’m a bit ashamed of it. It’s full of terrible writing accompanied by a generic plot, but it is what really taught me the do’s and don’t’s of narrative writing)

To have met you earlier: one-shot, complete (my first one-shot and I still have no idea how to keep things short. I know I’ll eventually look back on this fic and see it as a major turning point in my writing style)

Remembering You: complete (some of the best narrative writing I have done is in this fic, to which I cringe at because it’s not that great. My style has changed drastically from the beginning and will only continue to mutate…)

Quadrille of War: incomplete, finally off of a two year hiatus (This is the only fic that I have promised to be more than a one shot. All the other ones that have come up in the past two years have been one shots, and will stay that way... unless I decide to make it a two shot. I know this fic isn't as popular as my other ones, but please give it a chance.)

Streams of Our Consciousness: complete-ish (this is a experiment of sorts. I wanted to write 100-word drabbles, but didn't have a topic to write on. So, I decided I would write from the perspectives of different RK characters on the relationship that Kenshin and Kaoru share. I tried to write from perspectives that aren't completely mainstream. tell me what you think!)

Vignettes: I am currently going through an obsessively vignette cranking phase in writing. I have always come up with scenes I want to write, but not entire stories. So, I started just writing the scenes. I might expand on some of these with additional scenes, but I can't see them as full-blown stories.