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The next day, in school, as Daria has read all books assigned to English class, [[Timothy O'Neill|O'Neill]] gives her a special assignment: to write a fictional story using real persons as characters.
Daria finds difficulty with the work. At the Lane's, as [[Jane Lane|Jane]] is painting and making suggestions, Daria writes and throws away two drafts, one inspired by the film ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate_%28film%29 The Graduate]'', and the other heavily influenced by
The next day, Daria laments to Jane her lack of progress in writing, confusing her friend about what kind of story she wants to write. That evening, as Helen tries again unsuccessfully to approach her, another emergency with Jake in the kitchen gives Daria another idea: in medieval times, knight Jake meets witch Helen, demanding to see his future, but the witch insists in payment before lamenting women's lack of power. Then lightening strikes and now Knight Helen meets witch Jake, demanding to see her future, even threatening him, but Jake is more interested in tasting his brew…
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Books with "moral dimensions" that O'Neill lists on the blackboard are: 1984 by George Orwell, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, and Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Considering the subject matter and style of some of these stories/writers, this list is quite surprising for O'Neill.
Daria's second story implies she's read Jane Austen.
==Trivia==
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In "[[Psycho Therapy]]", Daria will explain that she tries to shut down conversations with her mother because she knows Helen will "hang on every word" and that makes her feel uncomfortable.
We can assume from this that Daria's seen ''The Graduate'' and
Daria chooses [[Jamie White]] as Quinn's future husband. No reason is given for this choice, though it may have just been random, as "[[Lucky Strike]]" shows that she cannot keep track of which [[Three Js|J]] is which.
Daria also has [[Jesse Moreno]] as Jane's "suitor", though he never went after Jane in the series. An early pairing in fanfics was Jesse/Jane, however.
The first story with Quinn has her suffering emotionally (and then physically) because everyone wants her to be like Daria, a rather vicious revenge fantasy - Daria's final story reveals that she actually wishes she could get on with her sister, and that Quinn was a wildly different person so this could happen. Season 5 would later show Quinn and Daria getting on better without Quinn changing that much.
==“Write Where It Hurts” and Fanfic==
"Marcello" keep turning up in post-canon fanfic as a boyfriend, husband, or ex-relationship of Daria's.
A [[Novelization|novelization]] of [http://www.outpost-daria.com/fanfic/ep213_write_where_it_hurts.html this episode] was written by [[Martin J. Pollard]].
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