Nicole Lungerhausen
Writer | Theater Maker | Writing & Movement Coach
The Rule Followers Guide to Petty Revenge Fantasies
A field guide for the rule followers and petty grievance-holders among us.
This zine features:
a personal essay about wishing people the worst. Includes illustrations of unrepentant douchebags you can color in!
a fairy tale about a rule-following arborist who learns the hard way that not everyone feels obligated to behave like a decent person
a fun, fill-in-the-blank Hex Lib
so-bad-it’s-good petty revenge haiku
and more!
Bonus! Guided Visualization on Petty Revenge
If you’re here, that means you picked up our zine, sometime, somewhere. We’re so grateful! Throw on some headphones and let Nicole guide you to a fantasyland where your shadow self can run wild. Content warning: explicit language
Music credit: “Shavasana” by Joel Loopez
Read My Stories
If We’re Meant to Walk in the Sun, The Colored Lens
The Instrument, Apex Magazine’s Strange Machines Anthology
Song of Your Life, The Future Fire
Tell Me Something Good, Luna Station Quarterly
I Want You to Want Me, Electric Spec
Tiny Lights, Apparition Lit
Urgent: Lost Bekip, Abyss & Apex
How to Survive a Crash Landing, Red Weather
Tree on Fire, A-Minor Magazine
Work With Me
As a coach, I work with beginning fiction and non-fiction writers to discover their voices and the stories they truly love to write. My specialties are fantasy, science fiction, and personal essays.
Example of services:
Body-focused coaching on how to tap into your writing voice and what you truly want to write about through sensory exercises, movement, and breath and voice work
Guidance on side-stepping the internal critic and working with writer’s block through exercises focused on playing, experimenting, and following your curiosity
Developmental critiques on flash fiction, short fiction, and personal essays
Pre-submission fine-tuning
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“I love working with Nicole because she asks questions that help get to the root of where a piece of writing needs to go. . .the value of working with her is learning new ways to look at writing holistically and opening up our sometimes rigid minds to new ways to approach a problem within our work that is applicable across genres. She excels at helping me find ways to help myself, to honor my voice, and to keep searching for a path forward. She’s at the top of my fantasy acknowledgments list!”
Logan S.
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“Nicole has a gentle way of approaching the parts that need the most attention in a manuscript, without making you feel like you totally messed up. But she also isn’t afraid to point those spots out. I appreciate that frankness, coupled with a gentle approach. . .She helped me believe that a story has more merit than I originally thought. She makes me see ME better, or in a better context. I think that’s important for a writer when they come to a consultant: to feel like they are seen, that their work is taken seriously, and that it is enjoyed.
Jerome S.
About Me
Hi, I’m Nicole and I write fantasy and science fiction.
My stories have been published by Abyss & Apex, Apparition Lit, Apex, The Colored Lens, and The Future Fire, among others. My work is included in Abyss & Apex’s 2019 “Best of” anthology, received an honorable mention from L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
My writing is informed by my 10+ years as a professional theater actor in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an actor, I trained in dance, movement-based character work, breath techniques, sensory exercises and voice work. The majority of the projects I worked on—and found the most joy in creating—were devised through collaboration and improvisation by an ensemble. As a writer, I regularly use the skills I learned as an ensemble actor to create new material and revise stories. Sometimes I find the best way to work through a problem in a story is to get up away from the page and walk around in a character’s shoes for awhile.
I’m a member of Codex. I hold dual B.A.s in Creative Writing and Theater from San Francisco State University. I currently do all my living and writing in Greensboro, NC.
Contact Me
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