Hello there, my name is Carissa, but you can call me Carrie.

I'm glad you made my way to my stories and to my profile as well. I'm 16 years old. Writing is my passion and I've written several stories since I was about 8. English is not my first language though, so I used to write in my first language which is Indonesian, and later I had them all translated into English. But now, I've been focusing on writing in English. So you might find some grammatical and spelling errors, but I keep improving my English. Besides, I have joined a creative writing course back in 2006 and I've frequently roleplayed to improve my skills in creative writing and not to mention, my English writing as well.

My goal is to get my story published by a real publisher. I know it might sound difficult, remembering that I live in a country that doesn't have any English publishers. But hopefully, one day I'll find one and I will get it published.

MY STORIES

TITLE: The Nightlurker
FORMAT: Novel
DESCRIPTION: Julia Flinch just moves in to a Victorian-themed old mansion in rural Scotland. That's when she begins to feel haunted, who is revealed to be the ghost of a young man, to whom Julia never expects to fall in love with. After all, he's a ghost.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm inspired by my friend's experience (no, the events occuring in this story are not real) and apparently, I'm surrounded by people who apparently can see "things". One of them is my best friend, to whom I dedicate this novel to her. I don't know if there's any other ghost-love stories out there but I'm trying to make mine original. This story was first written in short story format and I used to publish it here but I deleted it and replaced it with this new novel format. And I'm trying to publish this in the future. It's also my first real novel I've ever written
RATED: PG-13
GENRE: Supernatural, Romance
STATUS: In progress

TITLE: Private Course
FORMAT: Novella
DESCRIPTION: Samantha Bennett is a young, rich girl who lives in an elite neighborhood of New York. But her life changes as a person enters her life. It's her private teacher, young, smart, and not to mention handsome. Will Sam fall for him?
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Again, I'm inspired by my friend's experience who told me one day that her private tutor was just 18 years old and apparently her story attracted my other friends, so we were like "tell me more about him." And the idea to make Private Course just popped up in my mind. I was about to finish this story in a short story format but it ended up longer than I thought (which makes it a novella). It's a bit cheesy due to lack of ideas, so I'm planning to rewrite this in a novel format.
RATED: PG-13
GENRE: Comedy, Romance, Drama
STATUS: Complete

TITLE: Life After Death
FORMAT: Narrated Short Story (no dialogue)
DESCRIPTION: A narrated story without dialog I wrote for a school assignment. It's about a girl who's killed in an accident. Her spirit wanders to the world after she dies.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Ugh, I forget how I got the inspiration for this. Perhaps because I was watching a plane crash news on TV, so the idea sort of just came up and worse, I wrote it without a plot due to rush for deadline (I made it for an assignment).
RATED: PG
GENRE: Drama
STATUS: Complete

TITLE: My Forest, My Habitat, My Life
FORMAT: Short Story
DESCRIPTION: It tells a story that happens normally in rainforest. From the mean Mighty Oak Tree, The Colony of Ants, The Talkative Parrot, and The King Lion himself, all join in one community to protect their habitat from humans.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I made this story by request of my friend's sister (she was a teenager at that time) who tried to make a short story assignment, which was her weakness. So she asked me to help her out finding the idea and I ended up writing the whole story! But she contributed as well in writing the story. The purpose of her intending to write a fable instead of teen romance (which is common to be written by teens) is because she loves animals. And although this story may sound cheesy and childish, I had fun writing it!
RATED: G, suitable for kids
GENRE: Comedy, Fable, Animals
STATUS: Complete

TITLE: Daddy's Phone Call
FORMAT: Short Story
DESCRIPTION: A young boy receives a call from his dad, telling the boy he can't take him to the fair. But wait a minute, something's not right from the way he calls.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I forget how exactly I got this idea. Well, I was bored that day, sitting in front of computer doing nothing. So I was thinking to write a story, a plotless one. Don't ask me where I got the idea because I really, really forget. But I never expected that this story would be finished within an hour! Although I wrote it in a short time and it was written without a plot, I admit this is the first plotless story I like best.
RATED: PG
GENRE: Supernatural, Drama
STATUS: Complete