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posted by [personal profile] selkie at 10:25am on 11/03/2006
Does the world need another treatment of The Twelve Wild Swans ?

I ask because I had this dream. A long, well-plotted dream, which is usually where my short stories come from (see also Dramatis Personae). Inspired by Andy Warhol flowers. It was extremely colourful, this dream treatment of the fable, and set in a slapdash-modern sort of Fable Schwarzwald. I even recall bits of dialogue, such as when the youngest swan/sibling/offspring sees a set of twelve coloured pencils in a shop window where they can't even dream of going into the shop, and remarks, "I didn't know we were expensive."

So. I dunno. I'm ridiculous, and I'm ripping plots off the Grimms.
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posted by [personal profile] sovay at 04:53pm on 11/03/2006
Write? Write? ("Moon.")
 
posted by [identity profile] sibylla.livejournal.com at 05:22pm on 11/03/2006
And the Grimms ripped them off of little old ladies, who'd ripped them off from other little old ladies all over Europe. I could get into a new and interesting retelling of that fairytale about an indeterminate number of siblings turned into swans through the means of enchantment for any one of a set of obscure reasons. :D
 
posted by [identity profile] lonespark.livejournal.com at 05:31pm on 11/03/2006
Some stories are timeless for a reason, no?
You should write.
 
posted by [identity profile] muchabstracted.livejournal.com at 07:15pm on 11/03/2006
Of course it does! What a silly question.
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posted by [personal profile] bansidhe at 08:03pm on 11/03/2006
Personally, I don't think you'll know 'til you write it. :D
And isn't there something satisfying about getting detailed dreams down on paper before they disappear?
 
posted by [identity profile] catvalente.livejournal.com at 10:43pm on 11/03/2006
I don't know, I've always thought of writing one, since it's my favorite fairy tale and I was separated form my brothers at an early age...who's to say the world doesn't?
 
posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 12:30am on 12/03/2006
Yes, but you have a good, proven history with Grimms.
 
posted by [identity profile] catvalente.livejournal.com at 05:48pm on 12/03/2006
And once I didn't. Then I wrote versions of Hansel and Gretel and Snow White and Sleeping Beauty...hardly low-tread fairy tales. There is ALWAYS something new to say; that's why it's folklore. You keep retelling it, it stays alive and vital.

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