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Once upon a time there were many kingdoms terrorized and infested with magic and all the magical creatures alike. Here are the tales of fairies, witches, goblins, dragons, elves, and curious creatures unspoken, lived and breathed by folks. Each has their own destiny that carries on the destiny of the land. Each story, each tale teaches a lesson for the generations to come. Chose your path wisely and follow your hearts, the story will unfold before you.
- 1.) Create a character that fits the fairy tale theme (obviously). Also if you want and/or haven't read an original fairy tale, I recommend reading one. They are short and here are some links to them online. The Grimm is older and a bit more unusual. I think we'll be writing more similarly to Andrew Lang's fairy books.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html <-- Grimm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/lfb/ <-- Andrew Lang
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2.) Think of a general fairy tale for your character (you can meet another character later and your tales and become one but in the beginning, everyone is separate unless you want to Hansel and Gretel with someone).
3.) I haven't figured out the rest but I think that's it.
Rules (most aren't rules tbh):
- 1.) Witches are evil (try to keep the setting like original fairy tales, they used to burn witches, you know) and therefore your characters should (most likely) not be magical (unless someone is secretly and then all the other characters find out and burn her at the stake). Your character can be magical as long as they were originally human. They were cursed, gifted, or something.
2.) Try to write in a more traditional(?) way. Some of the Brother's Grimm stories are short and available online, maybe read one to get a feel if you haven't read any classic fairy tales. Or if you read stories like Uprooted by Naomi Novik, you can write like that. Don't force to change your style so that it's uncomfortable for you to write, but try to be less modern and to remember that your characters are from a different time.
3.) It's not Disney so like your characters can and should have dark sides. Your character can be a kind hearted woman and then order a bunch of birds to peck out the eyes of her evil step-mother. It's fine. It's Grimm. But talking about Disney, this can actually be similar to Into the Woods as that is a bit grim, it's similar to the originals, and it has multiple character from different stories meeting.
4.) I like references to original stories, so I'll probably hint at a Grimm story very casually and if you want to do that too, that would be cool.
5.) You can have an animal main character and anthropomorphize it, but I'd prefer having all human main characters. I have read and seen stories that are just animal characters or things like that, so it's fine. I just think it'll be more difficult and can turn wrong quickly. I really want this to not turn into a Once Upon A Time (TV show) kind of thing. Cat and Mouse in Partnership is a good example of animal characters in an original story.
Characters:
- Signe (marmalade)
Prince V (passenger)
Princess Ryanette (steggy)
Ignatz Kliment Zeenat (NicolMemo)
Gobban (XxXTheSwordsmanXxX)
Seth (Ninlil)
Emilie (StellaThomas)
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