Pro-cra-sti-what?

[pprfaith]

I should be working on three tests and two lessons for next week. Instead I'm reading sappy fanfic and plotting modern fairy tale adaptations starring a werewolf Red Riding Hood and Rumpelstiltskin, the serial killer fae.

I feel that a headache is imminent and unavoidable.

That is all.

Comments

[devious_angel3]

I can't wait to read this new story you are plotting. It sounds awesome!

[pprfaith]

They're original fiction, though, so I probably won't post them here. I'm planning (note that word, it's probably the key word in this sentence) an ebook of short stories. This'd go in there.

On the other hand, I binged on Once Upon a Time this week, and am currently trying my hand at that.

[tigriswolf]

I'm taking a Fantasy&Folklore class right now, so I'm in fairy tale mode. Those both sound awesome.

[pprfaith]

I can't figure out a working POV for the Red Riding Hood thing. Her perspective would be borning, an outsider's too limited. I'm playing with making it a collage. Newspapers and diary entries, that sort of thing. It'd start with cattle mutilations, obviously.

And, hey, you're back in school? Grad school, right?

[tigriswolf]

Why would her pov be boring? Does she know she's a werewolf?

Yup yup, back in school. Syntax, Politics of Literacy, and Fantasy&Folklore. My semester of grad school.

The only problem so far is that Syntax is taking everything I already knew about my own language and turning it on its head to laugh at me.

[pprfaith]

Oh god, Syntax just about killed me, and I needed credits in two different languages. Most of the time, German and English syntax sort of overlap, but some things are completely contradictory and my head just about exploded. Needless to say, not my best subject.

Do you have to do topology? Because that's just hellish.

Her POV would be boring because the werewolf thing is supposed to be a slow revelation, and she knows. I think I'll settle for a teenager's POV, interspersed with newspaper articles.

[tigriswolf]

While we're discussing folklore -

Are you familiar with the legend of the selkie wife?

[pprfaith]

I started writing the selkie wife's daughter's story an age ago.... No idea why I never finished it. Huh. I should probably go find that.

... Yes, I know it.

[tigriswolf]

Okay, so I have to tell a traditional folktale/legend in my Fantasy&Folklore class. I couldn't decide between Orpheus, Tantalus, or the selkie wife, though I think I've settled on the last one.

And then, while I was googling various combinations of selkie this and selkie that, I started writing a poem where the selkie doesn't just pine for the sea, she actually kills the guy.

So. ... now I kinda want to write another version where she kills him from the get-go. Huh.

Anyway. (I keep asking people this, but I'm still not sure. *headdesk*) Do you think I should do one of the Greek stories or the selkie wife?

[pprfaith]

My first instince would be selkie wife, because Celtic myths are totally underappreciated and also more fun and also, yes!

Careful with the killing, though. Don't slip into siren territory, unless you're going for mixed up myths.

My story was supposed to set in after the wife returns home. Daughter runs away for a weekend by the sea, which daddy never allowed before, and develops a yearning for the sea. But since she has no skin, she ends up walking to her death instead of home to mommy.

One day I'll write a story that's all butterflies and unicorns and no-one will die.

So, anyway, my vote's for selkie wife. If you want a twist, maybe add a Bluebeard-esque test of trust? Or a pragmatic husband, who goes by the adage of 'if it loves you, it'll come back'?

I kinda want to have that class. It sounds awesome.