Audience participation.

[hannah]

A small warm-up before proper content.

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

If I wrote a story today, what would the readers immediately look for?

Comments

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

I'd be looking for the strange, wondrous, possibly painful divergence from the world as I know it. It's rarely if ever the same divergence, but there always seems to be one.

If you wrote Cinderella, I don't know what you do. I have absolutely no idea, and that's why I love the way you write.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Cinderella with the fairy godmother as some sort of inhuman magical creature captured against its will and forced to perform petty miracles would be a pretty neat take on the theme, and a nifty way to reexamine the original and terrifically bloody version - birds pecking out your eyes is a bad way to go. That, or maybe a sympathetic look at the stepmother and stepsisters with an examination of old court politics.

[ayalesca.livejournal.com]

Cinderella would have some kind of (perhaps time-stopping?) superpower. :)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Superpowers are like chocolate: they make everything better.

[ayalesca.livejournal.com]

And since the rest of the world seems to be taking a much more serious tack on this, I'll try again. :)

You give a unique perspective, one that reveals the hidden underpinnings of our world as well as the ones in your stories.