Actual intro post now with 100% more fairytale retellings
Preferred Name: Kendra
Working Title: Pea
Genre(s): Fairytale, Romance
Important Characters:
Adelaide Stanton
The heroine and protagonist of the story, Del is moderately tall, dark-haired, and pretty enough. She’s also a textile merchant who’s pretty painfully honest when she’s not trying to make a deal. She’s uncompromising, smart, and proud of herself, and she has very little patience for sandy-haired princes with girly names. She carries a knife in the top of her boot and she knows how to use it well enough to take someone’s eye out if they decide to attack her.
Prince Lucien
Lucien is kind of a douche. He’s spoiled rotten, has his head in the clouds, and thinks he’s pretty much the most attractive thing on earth. He may be right about the last bit, but just because it’s true doesn’t mean that you’re justified in being a pompous jerk. Lucien constantly overreacts, sleeps with everything that moves, and is a bit of a crier. He also really, sincerely gives a damn about people.
There is also Lucien’s ~intense~ mother and Del’s four sisters, but right now I’m working on fleshing out Del and Lucien, so those guys have taken the back seat. There will be some other characters as the plot dictates, but right now I’m just working on hashing out the plot.
A Brief Overview of Story:
I am basically working on a retelling of The Princess and the Pea. A little while ago, my girlfriend and I were talking and the subject came up, and I thought that the fairytale was basically the dumbest thing I had ever heard, because no one is going to be able to feel a pea in their bed and if there were that many mattresses wouldn’t the pea get squished? So I came up with this story, which you might call a feminist retelling. Anyway, it goes kind of like this:
Lucien is walking through a skeevy part of town at night. Del, on her way back from work, sees him. She is appalled at Lucien’s idiocy and tells him as much. Lucien tells her that he can take care of himself thankyouverymuch. Del is not impressed, and tells him so. They end up making out. Er. Yeah.
Anyway, time passes. Lucien keeps sleeping with everyone despite being in love with Del His mom is like “uh please to STOP DOING THIS SHIT” and Lucien is like, “Sure. Uh, mom, there’s this girl I kinda really love and want to marry so NO WORRIES. Oh btw she’s a commoner lololololol.” Lucien’s mom flips her shit and creates a test to make sure that Lucien marries a princess. This test is the same one as is in the original story, but the queen won’t tell Lucien what the test is. Lucien is sad! WHAT IF HE CANNOT BE WITH DEL FOREVER? He cries to Del. Del says she’ll figure it out, and she does! Through Del’s trickery, they are married and live happily ever after more or less.
Things You're Excited About:
-- I have a plot! I know where the story ends! It is short and manageable, because all of my other stories are epics and while they are fun and I love them, they are also rather difficult to handle. So!
-- Del and Lucien are both total losers and I love them for it. Like, seriously. They have pretty much the dumbest interactions ever.
-- TREETING OMFG SO EXCITEDDDD
Things You're Nervous About:
-- I know what story I want to tell, but I don’t know what order I want to tell it in. I am essentially writing a love story, which is not my area of expertise, but yeah. I want to focus on Del and Lucien falling in love like, a lot, but I also don’t want to only have, like, a passing mention of the fairytale. So should I like tell the story through flashbacks or tell it in a linear fashion and IDK do I need more subplots. I am so confused about the pacing.
-- People reading my work FFFFF WHAT IF THEY HATE ME? WHAT IF THEY HATE MY STUFF? Arrgghhhhh.
-- I have no idea what genre this story is supposed to be, and whether I want to aim for YA, sci-fi/fantasy, or literature.
Any Thoughts Or Concerns: Um I basically covered everything already so. Uh. My thought is that I love writing. Yes. I am so cool.
Working Title: Pea
Genre(s): Fairytale, Romance
Important Characters:
Adelaide Stanton
The heroine and protagonist of the story, Del is moderately tall, dark-haired, and pretty enough. She’s also a textile merchant who’s pretty painfully honest when she’s not trying to make a deal. She’s uncompromising, smart, and proud of herself, and she has very little patience for sandy-haired princes with girly names. She carries a knife in the top of her boot and she knows how to use it well enough to take someone’s eye out if they decide to attack her.
Prince Lucien
Lucien is kind of a douche. He’s spoiled rotten, has his head in the clouds, and thinks he’s pretty much the most attractive thing on earth. He may be right about the last bit, but just because it’s true doesn’t mean that you’re justified in being a pompous jerk. Lucien constantly overreacts, sleeps with everything that moves, and is a bit of a crier. He also really, sincerely gives a damn about people.
There is also Lucien’s ~intense~ mother and Del’s four sisters, but right now I’m working on fleshing out Del and Lucien, so those guys have taken the back seat. There will be some other characters as the plot dictates, but right now I’m just working on hashing out the plot.
A Brief Overview of Story:
I am basically working on a retelling of The Princess and the Pea. A little while ago, my girlfriend and I were talking and the subject came up, and I thought that the fairytale was basically the dumbest thing I had ever heard, because no one is going to be able to feel a pea in their bed and if there were that many mattresses wouldn’t the pea get squished? So I came up with this story, which you might call a feminist retelling. Anyway, it goes kind of like this:
Lucien is walking through a skeevy part of town at night. Del, on her way back from work, sees him. She is appalled at Lucien’s idiocy and tells him as much. Lucien tells her that he can take care of himself thankyouverymuch. Del is not impressed, and tells him so. They end up making out. Er. Yeah.
Anyway, time passes. Lucien keeps sleeping with everyone despite being in love with Del His mom is like “uh please to STOP DOING THIS SHIT” and Lucien is like, “Sure. Uh, mom, there’s this girl I kinda really love and want to marry so NO WORRIES. Oh btw she’s a commoner lololololol.” Lucien’s mom flips her shit and creates a test to make sure that Lucien marries a princess. This test is the same one as is in the original story, but the queen won’t tell Lucien what the test is. Lucien is sad! WHAT IF HE CANNOT BE WITH DEL FOREVER? He cries to Del. Del says she’ll figure it out, and she does! Through Del’s trickery, they are married and live happily ever after more or less.
Things You're Excited About:
-- I have a plot! I know where the story ends! It is short and manageable, because all of my other stories are epics and while they are fun and I love them, they are also rather difficult to handle. So!
-- Del and Lucien are both total losers and I love them for it. Like, seriously. They have pretty much the dumbest interactions ever.
-- TREETING OMFG SO EXCITEDDDD
Things You're Nervous About:
-- I know what story I want to tell, but I don’t know what order I want to tell it in. I am essentially writing a love story, which is not my area of expertise, but yeah. I want to focus on Del and Lucien falling in love like, a lot, but I also don’t want to only have, like, a passing mention of the fairytale. So should I like tell the story through flashbacks or tell it in a linear fashion and IDK do I need more subplots. I am so confused about the pacing.
-- People reading my work FFFFF WHAT IF THEY HATE ME? WHAT IF THEY HATE MY STUFF? Arrgghhhhh.
-- I have no idea what genre this story is supposed to be, and whether I want to aim for YA, sci-fi/fantasy, or literature.
Any Thoughts Or Concerns: Um I basically covered everything already so. Uh. My thought is that I love writing. Yes. I am so cool.