Hazumu
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Joined 03-09-08, id: 1520084, Profile Updated: 06-08-11
Author has written 1 story for ToHeart.

Let's see, about me...

I'm by no means a professional writer. Apart from a few published poems and a one shot poetry reading on the discovery channel about ten years ago, I could hardly call myself organized enough to even be an amateur. All the same, I've been writing fiction and poetry since long before that, and I hold to it as an often revisited favorite hobby. There was a time in my teenage years that I was able to focus the intensity of raging hormones into the written word, and I reveled in waking up at 3am with the inability to go back to sleep until I'd put a new idea on a page. Alas, time changes everything, and the demands of my adult life have kept me from devoting that kind of time to literature as of late.

I've since churned out a few pieces, but one of my greatest frustrations has been the inability to finish any actual stories. I get inspired by an idea and set myself to it, only to have the spark fade before I can get a chance to complete the work, again due to how long I must drag it out because of life's demands. That's the kind of writer I am, I suppose. I tear into my work with the fire of inspiration, throw up ideas all over the paper, and take care of editing/damage control later on. One thing I have learned, however, is not to let a good idea pass by. I'll use scraps of paper, napkins, lipstick (not that I've ever used that, but I would if it was all I had available), or whatever I have to to jot down an idea when it comes to me. Rather than writing up a formal outline or other such techniques, I touch on the main ideas with my mishmash of papers and put it altogether in my head.

To me, the most fascinating aspect of writing a story are the characters themselves. As long as I'm working on a story, the characters become real to me. They have their own personalities other than mine, and it is often they who will dictate to me who they are, to the point that I am at times suprised to find out a given character is not at all who I thought they'd be. I've had heroes inadvertantly become slimy criminals because of this, or innocent young girls pervert into sensual femme fatales. It's not really something that'll bother me too much as far as completing a work, but if I find personalities diverging too far past the point of my own control, it may color my opinions on the story as a whole before I finish it.

I take a few clues from Sam Clemens in the sense that I tend to write the way people talk. I stay as grammatically correct as I can, but when someone is actually speaking, you'll note an excess of '...' in their words, or several pauses to swallow, breath, or whatever else a normal person might due given the circumstances of the scene. Some people don't approve of this sort of thing, but it's my way--I can dive into a scene better when I have a clear picture of where everybody is standing, their body language, and exactly how they're saying what they're saying. It's just more real to me that way. Rarely, you will probably notice the use of the CAPS LOCK. I don't care for an excess of this either, but on certain rare occassions I've broken down and used it for single words to emphasize a scream or other bloodcurdling act in an otherwise still setting, to make it stand out more.

Call it cliche, but my favorite poem since I was old enough to read it has always been Poe's 'The Raven'. I adore the way it feels, the way it flows, and prefer to read or listen to it with the inflection and madness in the narrator's voice that it's meant to have. My writing is not influenced by this to say that all I can manage are stories of the macabre, but it does tend to extend my vocabulary a bit too much. I admit, this does on occassion lead to excessively long words and a tendancy to want to cram too many thoughts into one sentence. I find most of my editing work to consist of replacing commas with periods and removing excessive uses of the same words in the same paragraph. My favorite modern prose author is probably Andrew Neiderman (again, say what you will). I love fantasy and science-fiction, but I'm not too keen on things like Harry Potter. Just wasn't ever able to grab me.

Nowadays, I read manga more than anything else, and I challange anybody who wouldn't think of this type of story as on par with novels or other forms of literature. If you can manage to wrench yourself away from the foolish societal notion that you're an adult reading a 'comic book', you'll see what really lies there. They make me laugh, they excite my adrenaline, they make me fall in love with characters, and they make me shed a tear. Emotional response is a big thing for me, and any story or genre thereof that can make me truly experience the range of emotions is something I at the best will cherish, and at the worst will at least deeply respect. My favorite manga author is Ken Akamatsu, with others including Yuki Nasu, Yuna Kagesaki, and a few more I can't recall off the top of my head.

At any rate, that's me from a literary standpoint, and I do sincerely hope you will enjoy any works I get around to posting on this site. Thank you for your time in reading this, and if you desire to know more about my anime/manga interests (given that this is a fanfiction site and there's a fair amount of that on here), feel free to visit me at

~Hazumu

A Nightmare on Heart Street reviews
Fanfiction based on the anime series 'To Heart 2'. Events in this story take place on the same evening as the school festival in episode 3 of the OVA. Watching at least this much beforehand is recommended to get a gist for the setting. Enjoy!
ToHeart - Rated: M - English - Horror/Romance - Chapters: 5 - Words: 24,099 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 2 - Published: 3/12/2008 - Complete