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Sep 20, 2013 11:33

I'm gearing myself up to do NaNoWriMo. It's still a month and a half away, but I've fallen out of the habit of writing every single day and I'm trying to get myself in that mindset again. And getting excited about it, for me, means talking about it.

( Under a cut, for anyone who doesn't want to read babbling about 6th century Franks and fairy tales. )

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crooked_halo September 20 2013, 23:45:44 UTC

This sounds AWESOME. And also, I am giggling quite a bit at your interpretation of the girl who was cursed to have the toads and vipers come out of her mouth. That's just adorable!

sithwitch13 September 21 2013, 00:20:37 UTC

Earlier this year I participated in a group discussion about fairy tales with some friends and kept interrupting with "AND THEN THIS HORRIBLE THING HAPPENED AND I TOOK THE WRONG LESSON AWAY FROM IT" and apparently my reading habits as a kid were morbid and upsetting? And I'm not allowed to make book recommendations for the under-eight crowd? And I had no idea that these were abnormal reading habits in most circles until I had a room full of people staring at me open-mouthed with eyes the size of saucers.

Seriously, though, endless pets. And I like frogs and snakes! I like them better than flowers and rocks.

crooked_halo September 21 2013, 00:44:40 UTC

Oh my gosh. I would LOVE to hear more stories!

And seriously, who wants rocks falling out of their mouth? Diamonds or not, that sounds painful!

sithwitch13 September 21 2013, 00:59:30 UTC

Oh, you know. Me interrupting us talking about Little Red Riding Hood to talk about the variants where the wolf feeds her the grandmother, or the one where the cabin's been decorated with intestines, or where the wolf makes her take all her clothes off before climbing into bed with him. Or the original version of Rapunzel that has the prince's eyes being stabbed out and pregnant bald Rapunzel being kicked out. Or the rape in Sleeping Beauty. Or my other favorite fairy tale being Brother and Sister (which I wrote a zombie apocalypse version of, but it wasn't accepted into that anthology, but I still really like that story and need to expand and retool it for submission elsewhere.)

I'd imagine that toads and frogs and snakes wouldn't taste good either, but at least you get free pets out of it.

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