marycatelli: (East of the Sun)
2025-02-07 11:54 pm

maps and mausoleums

The 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.
marycatelli: (East of the Sun)
2024-11-14 02:25 pm

Fairy-Tale Free-For-All

essayed again.

This is doubly my stuff, because it's about how I came to write my story
marycatelli: (East of the Sun)
2024-09-16 11:37 pm

silver and gold and discussion

Hmmm. . . 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.
marycatelli: (East of the Sun)
2024-09-12 11:32 am

the third time -- how charming

The 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.
marycatelli: (East of the Sun)
2024-09-03 09:37 am

that scene

Revising along and had a scene in my story.

It didn't fit.  

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