#so as not to mar the original by attaching more half-baked retellings to it
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Springtime means that instead of writing, my brain is just cycling through my springtime retellings:
Four different ideas to retell "The Goose Girl"
Two ideas to retell "The Princess and the Pea"
My traditional retelling of "The Twelve Huntsmen"
A couple of the most springtime-y "Cinderella" ideas (thankfully my "Tattercoats" retelling counts as one of these)
Interspersed with the occasional:
I need to develop one of my original fiction ideas to prove I'm not just a hack who can only write retellings
#adventures in writing#fairy tale retellings#the twelve huntsmen has been on my mind since this is the time of year for it and because i just read a loose retelling of it#the princess and the pea comes to mind every time there's rain#i just had a breakthrough on the one that makes it an anastasia type story#realizing that instead of telling it from the pov of the prince or the queen#as them trying to solve a mystery that we know the answer to because we know what fairy tale it's retelling#it's much more interesting to tell it from the pov of the princess#who is dealing with the heartbreak of finally making it back to the people you love#only for them not to believe that you're you#the other princess and the pea and a goose girl and one of the cinderellas are arateph stories#that i waver between wishing i could develop into something beautiful and wishing i could just cut my losses and leave it be#so as not to mar the original by attaching more half-baked retellings to it#the most recent and most satisfying breakthrough came this morning#related to the most viable of the goose girl retellings#a non-magical culture clash fantasy story that was originally from the pov of the handmaid#that ran into problems partly because i couldn't get a good handle on the princess character#i recently started to think that taking it from the princess' perspective would be more satisfying#either replacing or in addition to the handmaid pov#but i couldn't get a handle on her character#i wanted her to be quiet and timid but i didn't want her just to be the same shy uncertain princess who stars in most retellings#i wanted her to have some pride/snobbishness/prejudice that she needs to get over#but i couldn't seem to reconcile those two sides into one character#until i realized that she's not shy or scholarly--she's *cultured*#she's kind and quiet and a bit shy#she understands refined languages and writes poetry and does delicate artwork and has trained to be the wife of a civilized prince#so suddenly getting forced into marriage with a barbarian king is the worst thing that could happen#and her arc involves learning that these people aren't barbarians and their culture is just as valuable as hers#and that the king she was supposed to marry is actually a supremely kind and civilized person#and it could be a lovely little romance if i could actually write it instead of cycling to the next ideas
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