If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
- Alfred Hitchcock

When I write a story, what do readers immediately look for?

If you could ask any of three of my characters (from fanfic or original) any three questions, what would you ask them?

If you don't know the site http://tvtropes.org - you should. It's a great site that tells you all the tropes that are in television, films, manga/anime, literature, well. . .everything. I went on it and noticed that my original story, Wonderlife fits many of these points. So, I made a list. I'm ( Read more... )

Wonderlife is a new original fic that I've been working on for over two years. I think of the story as a human drama filled with romance and some comedy. It's the story of people; a family that is formed by people whom society doesn't want. They are con artist/gamblers/etc, who are just looking for a moment of wonder in a life that is filled with ( Read more... )

I wrote this for my college's first literature magazine last December. It was put into the magazine along with one other play. This one won the Editor's Choice Award. The basic plot is fairly simple: it's a one act play that has two terminally ill patients discussing one of their future funeral. I thought the idea of the two view points would be ( Read more... )

Author: Nichole
Challenge: Licorice - 20. the cheese stands alone
Extra: none
Word Count:
Story: Wonderlife
Summary: She has a Wall of Words that remains her of how she should feel.
Author's Note: This is my first piece with Taka. Taka was interesting and even a little sad to write. If Ling'er needs looking after, Taka needs a doctor. It's ( Read more... )

Author: Nichole
Challenge: Licorice - 15. the cupboard was bare
Extra: none
Word Count: 932
Story: Wonderlife
Summary: Chan-wook sleeps; Ling'er's hungry; Mason thinks of Ling'er as his very own stray dog.

( When she was in her forgotten mother's womb. . . it was the only time she was safe )

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Name: Nichole
Title/World: Wonderlife
Genre: Human Drama, Dark(ish) Comedy, Romance
Challenge: Mango, Licorice, and Fudge Ripple ( Read more... )

This is an orginial short story that I wrote for my creative writing class. I am thinking of submitting it to the school's literary magazine. Feedback would be helpful, as the deadline is Dec. 12th.

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I had to write a prose poem for my english class, and I thought I'd share it:

( prose )

Because I have so much free time (er, no free time.) I ended up joying 100_original, in which I'll write 100 drabbles, fics, poems, whatever about orginial characters in an orginial world. So cool and a great way to do my thing. I've already got the characters and started writing. For anyone that cares, here's a sneak peak.

( When in Rome )