And so it happened
Dec. 15th, 2006 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xaaraI should be doing things like studying, but instead I'm curled up in bed writing fairy tales.
For serious, like tales about fish and fishermen and soldiers and the long march home. I read this little biography of Hans Christian Andersen and it stressed that he invented most of his tales, didn't just retell folk legends.
I thought, Hey, that's pretty cool. I bet I could try that.
As it turns out, capturing the tone and mood of Andersen-ian fairy tales, using a sort of cobbled-together archaic diction, and coming up with new plots at the same time is hard. But it's a lot of fun, too.
For serious, like tales about fish and fishermen and soldiers and the long march home. I read this little biography of Hans Christian Andersen and it stressed that he invented most of his tales, didn't just retell folk legends.
I thought, Hey, that's pretty cool. I bet I could try that.
As it turns out, capturing the tone and mood of Andersen-ian fairy tales, using a sort of cobbled-together archaic diction, and coming up with new plots at the same time is hard. But it's a lot of fun, too.