Here here!
Drink a toast (raspberry lemonade, if you please...)!
Do a dance (square dancing, maybe?)!
And write a fabulous retelling of one of their best loved tales!!
....What?
Yes, yes. Alas, for those of you that know me, YES, I have returned to the Fairy Tale Thing, a.k.a. FTT.
The FTT us really cool and fun....its just also INCREDIBLY easy to screw up.
For instance:
The Horrific Retelling of Rapunzel.
*cringe*
I especially hate that thing after seeing Tangled. Disney's ideas were MUCH better than mine, let me just tell you...
For instance:
* No, Clare, the main character DOESN'T have to be cursed. Sheesh.
* The evil witch with a hyper-active sense of sarcasm was freakishly unoriginal.
* The over-emotional prince who swings rapidly back and forth between crying over his dead mother and mooning over a cranky princess.
* The henchmen floating gloves with no real purpose other than randomness.
* The magical cupboard that brought upon such incidents as Wheat Thin slinging, dyeing ones hair with Kool-Aid, and eating Oreos with your boyfriend *covers face in shame, groaning*
* KILLING THE WHOLE THING WITHOUT SAVING AN ORIGINAL COPY!!! *screams in horror*
Yeah.
Door closed.
Moving on.
Arguably, I was like, 12-13 when I wrote that.
Still... *gag*
This time, I'm giving Snow White a go!
I'm older, and a LITTLE wiser now, and I have a very specific idea for it in mind.
There are two things in Snow White that are darn cool:
The Magic Mirror and The Poison Apple!
Putting significant emphasis on these two could make for a very cool retelling.
I also am VERY excited about the dwarfs. Coming from a big family, just the thought of seven bachelor brothers living together is both hilarious and horrifying to comprehend!
And, of course, being ME, I had to do some art to get in the groove right after writing the prologue, which went very well, by the way:
My apologies for the lousy camera quality, but hey, we work with what we have. I borrowed from the incredibly epic Band Perry their amazing song If I Die Young.
I thought it fit pretty well.
All my family members said, "Oh! Its Sleeping Beauty!"
Me: *squinty eyes* "Nooooo...its SNOW WHITE."
"But her hair is long."
"SO WHAT!? I WOULD THINK THE FAIREST IN THE LAND WOULD HAVE FLOWING HAIR, DON'T YOU!?"
Needless to say, they were thinking very strictly DISNEY Snow White.
*sigh*
So. This is just the beginning of a long journey, I'm sure.
I love fairy tales.
I love to write.
Long live the Brothers Grimm!
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