I tried to work on one story for this, but I can't do it. My writing style is short and sweet, more like Chekhov who wrote short stories than Tolstoy and his record setting tomes. After a challenge from a different site for writers, I began thinking more about fairytales, not 'literature'. I would appreciate some fairytales I could rewrite, but not just the same common, already made into movies by Disney, stories. Do any of you have ideas? A lesser known tale you'd like to see rewritten?
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Nov 8, 2009 - 22 28
Can I say how much I love the Russian literature reference?
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
I'm also doing a series of short stories, and just finished one based (very) loosely on "Go I Know Not Wither, To Fetch I Know Not What", which is my favorite Russian fairy tale.
Best of luck to you on your endeavor!
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Nov 8, 2009 - 23 36
I have a soft spot for some of the seemingly less-popular Hans Christian Anderson ones; pretty grim, some of them, but not quite as common for rewrites. The Little Mermaid and the Little Match Girl have been hit up a lot, as has the Emperor's New Clothes, but things like the tinder box, the nightingale and the snow queen, though popular, don't seem to have been given the same kind of attention; I imagine they've all seen adaptations of some kind, given their source, but they don't seem to be as well known. And the tinder-box is one that always stands out in my memory for some reason, probably because of the eyes of the dogs...
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Nov 9, 2009 - 08 48
I have a soft-spot for Czech fairy tales......rather dark, but very compelling!
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Nov 9, 2009 - 19 33
Check out the Andrew Lang Fairy Books: http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/ (You can read them online.)
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Nov 9, 2009 - 22 14
The Juniper Tree by the Brothers Grimm is one of my favorites.
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Nov 9, 2009 - 23 46
I don't remember the title of it, and my books are packed away from my most recent move. But it's a fairy tale I read in my unabridged, unedited Grimm's Fairytale collection. I don't remember all of it, but I know that the antagonist cut off the girl's hands so that she could not wash, but she cried so much that the stumps left were snowy white. The Antagonist could not get her.
I'm sorry, not much help.