They're very simple stories, and therefore easy to keep simple or make complex. Sometimes they're completely original and draw only on tropes, or simply on a fairytale vibe.įairytales always appeal, I've found. Sometimes they're short and simple and much closer to the original. Sometimes the rewrites are long and involved and only draw loosely from the original tales.
Ivan and the Wolf is very dear to me, and I had a lot of combining it with The Robber Bridegroom as a gift for my sister. Cinderella will always have a place in my heart, because it was the one I loved best growing up and is still the one that I could happily rewrite a hundred times (currently, I am at two and a half rewrites, long way to go yet but I'll get there :3). I have been plaguing the world with fairytale rewrites ever since. Once I did figure that out, well, as any author would know-there was no stopping me then. It would be years before it occurred to me that I could actually write those new versions in my head down. I decided I definitely liked the way Disney did it better.Īfter that, I liked to change them in my head. She had a different version from the Disney one I knew, and I was devastated to learn that the poor little mermaid died. The first time I really appreciated that they could be rewritten was after I saw the 'real' Little Mermaid when I was visiting a friend. It had not just the more familiar Cinderella and Snow White, but tales from Japan, China, Ireland-more places than I can even recall now, but I devoured every single one of them.
My two favorite volumes were the one about who changed the world (it was where I learned about Amelia Earhart and Martin Luther King and so many other figures long before anyone mentioned their names in school) and the one that was filled with fairytales. We had this set of children's encyclopedias when I was growing up, and I adored those books. I started with Disney, as many in my part of the world probably do, but it did not take long for me to branch out into other versions. I fangirled fairytales long before I knew anything else. ClarelondonToday's guest is fellow author Megan Derr, with an enchanting tale of the inspiration she finds in worldwide fairytales.įairytales have always been my greatest inspiration.
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