Black Thorn, White Rose

[unico_love]

I haven't felt so well today so far, but hopefully I will start feeling better this afternoon/evening. I'm tired and lounging around. I'm in the middle of some writing (including a short story I think I will start transcribing to my computer later today). I was really inspired by the writing style of Ashputtle by Peter Straub , which I read last night. It's in the collection Black Thorn, White Rose, which I finished today. I absolutely love retellings of fairy tales. My stories tend to have fairy tale themes in them, and at least one is kind of a retelling of Red Riding Hood. I like applying fairy tales to all different situations and people and times and places. The archetypes in fairy tales really cross all boundaries. I love anthropomorphizing (or otherwise making concrete associations with) abstract concepts, too. I have to have some kind of visual/feeling attachment to a concept in order for it to start making sense to me and for me to start making it into patterns with other material.

I would like to read more by Jane Yolen soon, who has written books in this vein of fairy tale retellings.

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[latidoremegan.livejournal.com]

the title Ashputtle caught my interest - is the story perhaps an english retelling of the original grimm tale of cinderella in german? just curious because Ashputtle sounds a lot like Aschenputtel, the german name for cinderella.

[unico-love.livejournal.com]

It is a retelling of the original German tale:) But a lot of liberties are taken. Sorry this is so late, I wasn't receiving my livejournal comments in my email inbox.