Quotes:
"Gloomy people . . . always write merry things, while the cheerful depress people with their writings. And I am a cheerful person." -Anton Chekhov

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it." -Anais Nin

"All good writing is like swimming under water and holding your breath." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Writing is figuring out what is on everyone's mind, then saying it for them." -Henry Gregor Felson

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." -Thomas Mann

"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty." -Anton Chekhov

Profile:
Hello. I'm Mizutaka and those quotes above explain my general philosophy on writing. I would also like to welcome you to my domain of darkness at this point. . . mwahahaha . . . right, anyway, about me. My birth name happens to be something you don't need to know, but it's popular enough that it has been in the top ten baby names list for the last twenty years. You could probably guess it. I'm a eighteen-year-old who enjoys romantic moonlit dinners and long walks on the beach. Actually . . . not so much.

Truthfully, I'm not too fond of beaches, but I've been told that my element is water, therefore explaining why I always get the blue and green cards whenever I play Uno. I dislike suspense movies and hobo spiders (which are several inches in size) with a passion. I have a two foot bubble and all shall respect the bubble lest they want pain. I'm a dragon in the Chinese zodiac and a Cancer in the western zodiac. I live in a desert with cactuses in my backyard and volcanoes behind my house.So now I present to you some pointless statistic stuff to clutter your brain with:

Hobbies: Reading books/manga/fan fiction, writing at late hours in the night, drawing pretty pictures on everything, making an endless number of websites, obsessing over the newest best thing ever, collecting card decks, sleeping in my cozy bed, watching any anime available to me, learning different languages, listening to music, eating yummy food, shopping around town, playing video games, vegging out as I watch the Sci-Fi Channel

Things That Annoy Me: People who can't spell/write/grammatize worth crap, flamers, arguments, hypocrites, relentless teasing, being ignored, people who think they're geniuses but they're just as stupid as everyone else, Mary-Sues and their Gary-Stus, when someone says they'll do something and then they don't, racism and sexism, cats who never stop meowing, the American government (I'm all patriotic and such, but Bush is an idiot), the fact that people never listen to me when I suggest something, anti-gay stuff (love is love people), the sad fact that I cannot get my review numbers for any single fictionpress story into the realm of double digits

Some Keypoints: I am a non-religious person but I'm not anti-religion, I am a perfectionist, I support homosexuality but as far as I know I'm straight as a ruler, I swear often but I usually internalize it, I am a sappy romantic at heart who cries at sad endings and just wants to be loved, I have a short temper - don't mess with me, I am a slow updater/writer, I really don't care what you think unless it is a) something insanely kind that will turn me into a pile of gooey mush or b) helpful construtive criticism, according to some people I'm a bit ADHD because I have this habit of saying random things in the middle of conversations/sentences

Some Good/Important Places:
http://www.fictionpress.com/~mizutaka (fictionpress.com profile)
http://mizutaka.deviantart.com (deviantart profile)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mizutaka/ (my dramatic life, livejournal style)
http://www.kaniza.net/ (website collective with Kingdom Hearts, Naruto, and more)

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Updates:
06/22/06 - Posted Part VIII of Open Up
03/29/06 - Posted Part VII of Open Up
12/11/05 - Posted Part VI of Open Up
07/10/04 - Posted Part V of Open Up
05/01/04 - Posted Part IV of Open Up

Babble With Mizu on March 26th, 2007 at 1:05AM
So . . . I may possibly be posting Part IX of Open Up later today. It also may be a longer chapter - aka: a little more than 9 pages in size ten verdana. I also may have worked for a ridiculous period of time on Open Up yesterday/today (inspiration explosion, yes?), so Part X is a little over eight pages in size ten verdana. Also, we're getting into the fun, exciting parts that involve fun things such as pre-Roxas BHK.
-Mizutaka

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