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maps and mausoleums
Feb. 7th, 2025 11:54 pmThe heroine is about to walk into a mausoleum
Hmmm. . . I may need a map of this place. It's going to be plot-significant. Just a fairy-tale retelling, but the details may be significant.
It's amazing sometimes, what a fairy tale can breeze over that becomes interesting to embellish into a full novelistic treatment.
Hmmm. . . I may need a map of this place. It's going to be plot-significant. Just a fairy-tale retelling, but the details may be significant.
It's amazing sometimes, what a fairy tale can breeze over that becomes interesting to embellish into a full novelistic treatment.
silver and gold and discussion
Sep. 16th, 2024 11:37 pmHmmm. . . I think the heroine and her companions would at least discuss the gold in the witch's cellar before they walk off with it. Mind you, it's straight from the tale, Hansel and Gretel filled their pockets with gold and silver before going home, but these characters aren't that young.
the third time -- how charming
Sep. 12th, 2024 11:32 amThe time has come. For the third and final attempt of the sorceress to catch our fleeing prince and princess, and their companions. It is only right and proper for this to be the conclusion.
Only, in fairy tales, it's a lot easier to just have it change the third time, without setting it up or dramatizing it.
I think my hero's going to have to put some extra work into this one.
Only, in fairy tales, it's a lot easier to just have it change the third time, without setting it up or dramatizing it.
I think my hero's going to have to put some extra work into this one.
Plowing through the story, revising. Realizing that I had forgotten to dispose of other characters, too.
I could blame that it's a fairy tale retelling, but since I introduced the characters to make it more realistic, it's all on me.
First character left very promptly and easily.
I could blame that it's a fairy tale retelling, but since I introduced the characters to make it more realistic, it's all on me.
First character left very promptly and easily.
wrangling skulls
Jul. 25th, 2024 12:02 amAh, the fun of being a writer. Figuring out where to put the skulls, and scratching the idea of following the fairy tale. If she, Baba Yaga like, put them on poles around her home, the hero and heroine would decide that collecting them would take too long. Decent burial for the dead had to take a second place to the escape of the living.
Whereupon I realized that the hero would have been grimly unsurprised to see them on the poles, but shocked to stumble on them out of place.
Whereupon I realized that the hero would have been grimly unsurprised to see them on the poles, but shocked to stumble on them out of place.
geography and botany
Jun. 4th, 2024 11:45 pmIf, for plot purposes, there are caves and cliffs in a region late in the book, it may be wise to actually introduce them sooner.
Perhaps I can get away with a brief mention in the already written stuff. The hero's new supporting cast has a character who will definitely look into them.
And then in another story, I had thrown in peaches and then I started to wonder whether they were suitable for the milieu. A fairytale one, where you often have pumpkins and turkeys where transportation is crude -- then the fairytale could explain where they came from -- and then a little more research reveals they were safely medieval.
Perhaps I can get away with a brief mention in the already written stuff. The hero's new supporting cast has a character who will definitely look into them.
And then in another story, I had thrown in peaches and then I started to wonder whether they were suitable for the milieu. A fairytale one, where you often have pumpkins and turkeys where transportation is crude -- then the fairytale could explain where they came from -- and then a little more research reveals they were safely medieval.
Working on a legend (which is going to include a vital clue for our heroine).
Realized that with a twelve-year-old heroine, I probably want to shift it from the legend I was ripping off somewhat closer to the fairy tale in the same vein. . .
Fortunately when telling a story about a queen slandered and driven from court, the legends and fairy tales form a continuum. Keep that the problem is the king's male cousin, switch it from his attempt to seduce to his resentment that the king hadn't married the cousin's daughter. . .
Realized that with a twelve-year-old heroine, I probably want to shift it from the legend I was ripping off somewhat closer to the fairy tale in the same vein. . .
Fortunately when telling a story about a queen slandered and driven from court, the legends and fairy tales form a continuum. Keep that the problem is the king's male cousin, switch it from his attempt to seduce to his resentment that the king hadn't married the cousin's daughter. . .
generations
Sep. 11th, 2023 11:08 pmPoking at an outline for a fairy tale story. And there are some tropes that do not translate easily into long form.
Such as shifting between generations.
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Such as shifting between generations.
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