Even if you’re sticking with the same basic ‘medieval fantasy’ setting you drew the fairytale from-which is a perfectly fine solution and has been used many times to great effect-you want to figure out how you can take this setting and use it to tell your tale to figure out how the themes of the fairytale can meld or clash with that of the society and culture you’ve placed it in.
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You have to figure out how to fit this fairytale into a new world. When you retell a fairytale, picking the setting is doubly important. The setting is the structure that supports the story a good setting will not only support the story but interweave itself into the narrative, giving extra meaning and subtext to your plot and your characters. You can come up with characters and plot all you want, but until you have a stage to put them on, you aren’t going to go anywhere. Whenever you set out to write a story, you have to figure out where the story is going to take place. I haven’t begun to read it yet, but if it’s anything like other books of hers, it will be good. Why don’t we just pretend this is a week ago and continue to ignore the date until I’ve actually read the books that I was supposed to review last week.įor now, I have Wyn Owens talking about Vikings in her new book Secrets of the Mountain.
So, last week I kind of turned into a disaster when it came to the internet, though I couldn’t tell you what actually happened to me besides the bedroom explosion (actually caused by replacing a desk with a wardrobe).