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Featured Story For June 2007 - Not Your Average Cinderella Story by Honey
Nijntje:
And as always, I haven't read it yet lol.. But I'll give it a shot. Congrats honey!!
mers:
Congrats on being picked for the month of June Kelly :D i havent read this story yet, thought i'd read through what some readers of yours would say about this fic and see if any of them can push me into reading it but then i only found a lot of spoilers (like she sleeping with Nick...what! i dont want to know that now, lol) and now im curious why you named her Cinderella (i almost read your explanation to it but stopped myself, lol).
so yeah, i'm going to read it and then leave you proper reviews and come back here again :D for now, congrats again for being picked, you deserved it :D
honey:
--- Quote from: Nijntje on June 04, 2007, 04:15:39 AM ---And as always, I haven't read it yet lol.. But I'll give it a shot. Congrats honey!!
--- End quote ---
Thanks, (to you and Mers and all the others) who have said they will give this story a shot. I love that you're willing to try. But I also understand that this story is not for everyone so I won't be offended by those who can't get very far into it. (still curious to hear why not though) Hell I'm impressed that Mare got through the prologue, not a single mention of the boys in it. :D
I just wanted to say that for those people who are scared to read it because you don't really read romance then this might be a good one to start with because there is so much other than the romance going on, and because of it's darker tone the "sappyness" is really kept to a minimal. Well at least minimal for me -lol
but really there is a lot of drama/angst in this one too and you know I couldn't write a story without throwing a little humor in there as well so you might be surprised. (Sorry Mare, I doubt even this romance would be one you can sit through-lol I think it breaks all your rules about what Mare will read. :D )
To answer the question though, origionally I was going to keep the Boys as themselves and then through some magical event or something have them thrown into Cinderella's magical kingdom where they would then have to find a way to get back home and in the mean time meet Cinderella and one of them would fall for her and essentially steal her from prince charming or something. So all the roles in Cinderella would have been the same except the BSB would have been there causig all sorts of trouble and mixing up the fairytale. I never got the idea fully developed though, and I'm not sure how that turned into the trailerpark version of the tale I ended up with. lol.
I'm glad I went the way I did though because I stepped waaayyy outside my comfort zone with this one and I can't even tell you how much I learned from doing it. And I had so much fun writing something that I wouldn't normally write that I wanted to keep trying that and now I'm working on my first action story, and it's my first delve into another fandom as well. So wish me luck with that, I'm gonna need it.
Thanks again guys!
Nijntje:
So, I gave it a shot, and I'm happy I did ;D
I spent all afternoon reading NYACS and I was so intrigued by the whole thing, that I forgot to do the dishes and such.. :-[ (Can I blame you when my mom blames me, honey? ;D)
Firstoff, I really really really really like the general idea of the story!
I love Cindy! She's not the typical fan fic girl one of the guys falls in love with. She's kinda edgy, has had a rough life and forgot how to feel like a lady (or in fact never has felt that way). It was refreshing to see a girl curse, unaware of her beauty, and throw punches at everyone that deserves one.
*SPOILER ALERT FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T READ THE WHOLE STORY!!
DO NOT CONTINUE TO READ MY REPLY!!*
What I also loved, was the fact she punched Nick ;D (why do we like to see him get hurt so much?! :-\ ). He really deserved it, in fact I probably would have made sure he couldn't get child support anymore ;D (nah, just kidding).
I have to applaud you for the fact that you didn't make everyone be great friends with her. In most stories (including my own) everyone likes the girl that one of them falls in love with. I'm not sure why that is. Probably because it's easier to write, or because we want to maintain that 'everyone is one big happy family'-feeling. So I think it's very brave of you to keep the relationship between Cindy and Nick 'rocky'.
Another thing I liked was the fact that you portrayed Leighanne in a different way. Sure, she was sweet, nice, caring and very friendly, but with a bit of a naughty touch without getting 'nasty'. (Does that make sense?) While in other stories, she seems only shallow or just friendly and nothing else. I loved the way she yelled at Nick too, by the way.
Also, I loved 'your' Howie. I'm not sure why really, but with some fanfics (no offense to anyone!!!!!!!) I'm not finding his personality realistic. I totally didn't think that this time around. Again, not sure why. But I really really really liked 'your' Howie.
At first I thought.. "Oh no, she's gonna fall in love with Brian and that's that.. Boooooring.."
Since we didn't know Leighanne was in the picture then. But then I continued reading and found out that she was in the story. Then I thought "I sure hope she isn't gonna break up their marriage!"
And then I found out that she became great friends with both of them and I was like "Yaaaaaaaaay for friendship!" ;D So that was a great thing! And as you can see, not what I expected. And that was a GOOD thing!
There were a lot more things I liked, but I'll try to be short ;D:
- AJ cutting in when Nick and Cindy were about to kill each other
- Cindy's mom shooting Cindy's father
- The locket
- The time they went to the lake
- The fight Cindy and Danny had. Not the fact that they fought ofcourse, but it had to happen, that much was obvious.
- The fact that Cindy is kind of a tomboy
- etcetera, etcetera, etcetera ;D
So, for a question:
"Why did you choose "I'll never break your heart" to be their song?"
I'll try to come up with more questions later!
mare:
Aww you're too cute Honey lol at least everyone knows and understands my what Mare will read rules :) And I did make it through the prologue and half of the first chapter even without the boys because Cindy was an interesting character. I haven't been able to do that with a whole lot of romances. Can I do that for an entire story? Probably not lol but you made a very strong female character in Cindy and just FYI I LOVE that original idea you had! lol very clever. You should write a companion piece to this one, one day and use that.
I'm sorry i'm not able to get into these kinds of fics at all, but i'm so glad that all the repsonses you've had have been so positive. Yay Kelly!
:D
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