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Originally Posted by Amahain
That's good - I prefer involuntary transformations.
I'm thinking about the "vengeful spirit" aspect. Maybe the protagonist and another person somehow managed to piss off some spirits. The protagonist gets cursed to turn into a man-eating tiger, the other person is cursed to be hunted by that tiger.
If you go for the longer, more detailed story route, I would add some buildup to the transformation. One thing that I would keep in mind is that tigers actually have striped skin under their fur. Over the course of several days, the protagonist might see more and more stripes forming on her skin, marking her as cursed (kind of like the pentagram on the hand for werewolves).
And here's an interesting challenge: you're writing as a Westerner for a Western audience, and I think it would be kind of difficult not to root the story in Western culture somehow (by making the protagonist Chinese-American, for example) - people write about what they're familiar with, after all. See if you can avoid that temptation. Have the story set in China and make the main characters culturally Chinese.
Edit: But the college girl thing works too.
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Another great post, thank you! I'm not set on the college girl proposal yet, so please don't hold back with your own ideas. Especially since you've given me some interesting hurdles to think about and that's a big part of what this project is about. I will try to dig into some research on the Chinese myths for were tigers to see if I can't meet your challenge of authenticity.
Thank you all so much for the continued input. Please keep thoughts coming, you've all been wonderful help.