This is the place to find writing by NightBeck. If you're looking for original fiction and poetry, this is the place!

Watch this space for a more comprehensive guide once more of the writing goes up.

My personal space: living underwater

An Introduction

Welcome to my World, everyone!

Sorry about the ugliness of everything. It took me way too long to figure out how to make this place, and even longer to figure out how to post! I am obviously a computer genius.

Anyways! If you're here, it means that you have, at the very least, a marginal interest in my writing. So first of all, thank you! I do not demand feedback from the members of this world; if you read and enjoy, then it's enough for me. However, it is extremely rewarding to know that people read my work, so feedback is definitely appreciated.

Now that that's out of the way! Here's what you can expect to find on this journal:

Original fic. This is the big one, guys. The majority of the words I type every day have to do with one of my original stories. I write everything: suspense, fantasy, adventure, realistic, slice-of-life, and sometimes, crazy genre-blending combinations of those. These original stories may sometimes have mature material, such as violence, cursing, homosexuality (and heterosexuality - hey, who knows, some people are offended by straightness), and so on. However, my stories rarely rise above a strong PG-13 rating.

What kind of stories can you expect to see? Well...

In Descending Order- My first novel-length story, begun in my senior year of high school and completed, literally, the night before I moved into my first college dorm. It's a twenty-four-chapter suspense-black comedy fusion about a pragmatic doctor, his math-genius sister, and the group of mercenaries they take up with after their city burns to the ground. Will you see it here? Well, I'm not sure. I'm very fond of it, mainly because of the memories it involves, but my writing style has improved a lot since then. If it shows up here, it'll be after editing. But because I learned so much from writing it, I'll definitely talk about it often.

Catalyst- A former cowriting project, which I took the baton for after my cowriter lost interest. This is a fantasy story with heavy political overtones, concerning two best friends in a military-run academy with a somewhat different student population. This story is currently undergoing rewrites in all fourteen chapters, due to some plot reworking on my part, so when I post it here, you'll be getting the new, improved version.

The Imperial Guard- This one is, quite possibly, my baby. I came up with the original concept about a decade ago, and though it doesn't resemble the old idea at all, it's been reinventing itself since its first incarnation. Finally, I reached a point where I could write about it. This is an adventure/political drama (with plenty of dark humor) about a young nobleman, sold into slavery after the subjugation of his country, who - to his great annoyance - gets swept up into the war for independence. In-progress, currently nine chapters long, but will definitely end up as one of my longest stories; currently, two novel-length parts are planned.

This Morning- My newest story, possibly going to be written for a senior creative writing thesis. This story is a mix between suspense and slice-of-life, told in first person from several different perspectives. The primary two characters are a pair of foreigners in Tokyo: Sol, an exchange student whose roommate goes missing, and Jae-sun, a Korean intellectual who's just been fired from his lucrative job. Expect a little preview soon.

Short fiction - Not often, but I have a few short stories that I'm fond of. I'll toss those up here at some point.

Poetry. I don't write poetry nearly as often as I write fiction, but I do write it. And I have a fairly large portfolio of work I don't hate. I'll throw some of those poems up here.

Fanfiction. This is probably the thing you'll see the least of. I only write one-shots, usually at someone else's request (unless the idea was just too good to pass up), so I don't write a lot of fanfic at all. However, I've written a few fanfics, and I occasionally open up drabble requests with a list of fandoms I'm willing to write for. Watch for it!

And that just about sums it up. Questions? Comments? Anything you'd like to see first?