Young Writers Society

Welcome to the Fairy tale poetry discussion thread!

You can discuss the event here and such. Feel free to just talk! If you have any questions, just ask!

This sounds so fun!!!!

This is not my entry, but in the spirit of the contest I thought it merited mentioning. Enjoy!

So much fun!!

Can I ask you to define "Well known fairy tale" a little better? And just "fairy tale" by itself.
Mostly because I have seen My Neighbor Totoro classified as a more modern fairy tale. But it isn't one of your traditional fairy tales (like Cinderella, Rapunzel, The Princess and The Pea, and such). And I'm not really sure if it counts as "well known". I know that most of my friends have seen/heard of it. But I don't know about anyone past that. I know it's probably pretty popular in Japan because Studio Gibli is a pretty well known movie company and My Neighbor Totoro is one of their best films. But that's Japan.

Anyway, I feel very uncertain in what is allowed and what isn't. I mean does Disney's Brave count as a fairy tale?

If you wanted to do Brave, I'm willing to accept that. I like it's play on a warrior princess. Like if you based something on Tangled, that's a play on Rapunzel.

By well known, I mean something that I'll at least be able to find if I search it on Google. I'm not expecting to be able to recognise all fairy tales that people post.

If it falls under the category of "Fairy Tale" you can use it. You don't have to use the traditional ones. The whole point of this is to be creative and make it as original as you can!

I hope that helps you?

Okay, thanks. So I'm going to use My Neighbor Totoro, because even though it was originally a Japanese fairy tale (well, it's kinda pairtly fairy tale partially fantasy, it depends on how you define fairy tale, but I think that applies to most fairy tales) it does have an English version, and you can find stuff about it on the web. Actually, surprisingly enough, wikipedias page seems to be pretty accurate (from what I've read).

I'll get a head start and read up on that then!

And by "qdding up your own twist", do you mean like... Are we able to change the fairy tale(s ending, how it starts, even the overall world where it takes place but keep the story? It doesn't matter if we don't respect enterily how the story goes in the original fairy tale, does it?

You can change how it ends if you want, or how it starts, or where it takes place. As long as we can get an idea of what fairy tale it is, that's fine. For example, you could make Snow White some sort of assassin and she kills the seven dwarves instead of befriending them. The more original, the better!

Because I have little time, I assume the little red hen counts. If not please PM me.

Quick question: How close do we have to keep to the "one stanza is one chapter" rule? Is it OK if some of the poem is introspection as opposed to clear events happening one after the other?

The one stanza equals one chapter rule was really just there to keep some order to the poem. It's okay to veer a little away from it.

This was awesome!
When are the results coming out?

I'm glad you liked it! And I'm hoping to get them up this evening. The latest they're up will be tomorrow evening. But, they should be up tonight!