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Originally Posted by Not Afraid
I love fairy tales. I have bookloads of them. I read lots of writers who are modern fairy tale tellers.
But, I don't want to write one.
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Exactly my feelings. Instead, I was trying to write about how "fairy tale turned on its head" is basically its own genre because it's been around almost as long as the tales have....and how the original tales have been PC-ified over the years until they are practically spoofs themselves....and how writing about how the girl saves the day is actually not that wacky, and that in fact the underdog wins in most traditional tales....
Anyway, I'm bored just writing that paragraph. I get up on the soap box when I talk genre for children's stories. Yeech.
I'd say that I'll work on it more but it seems everyone's stuck. Sorry, LSPE!