Writer's Block: Once Upon a Time
Feb. 27th, 2012 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Cinderella, because it's such a universal story of breaking from your barriers and it can therefore be told in so many different ways. There's the magical Disney story, but also a more real-life historical version as Ever After, but the story can also easily be placed in a modern society. Actually, at the moment I'm reading the novel Confessions of an ugly stepsister by Gregory Maguire. A story, based on the Cinderella fairytale, but without magic, taking place in 17th century The Netherlands, but written by an American author, and told from the viewpoint of the ugly stepsister, who really isn't so evil as we always thought. Go figure!
Cinderella, because it's such a universal story of breaking from your barriers and it can therefore be told in so many different ways. There's the magical Disney story, but also a more real-life historical version as Ever After, but the story can also easily be placed in a modern society. Actually, at the moment I'm reading the novel Confessions of an ugly stepsister by Gregory Maguire. A story, based on the Cinderella fairytale, but without magic, taking place in 17th century The Netherlands, but written by an American author, and told from the viewpoint of the ugly stepsister, who really isn't so evil as we always thought. Go figure!
