I do wish Dreamwidth's writing communities were as active as LiveJournal's were, before the buyout by Six Apart. Sometimes I need a writers' workshop setting to bounce ideas off other brains, to help me get over sticking places. When Dad was still alive, I'd call him up on the phone, and talk things through out loud, but ...
Yeah. I used to think of Grimm Brothers versions of the stories as "The authentic originals" (because that's the propaganda they themselves pushed, and even many serious scholars took them at their word, until recently). I don't think that anymore, but it's still true that their versions are the ones that modern adapters choose to remix into other media.
But when I read the Grimm Bros. 1852 version of The Frog King, my first thought was: "Well, that's a happy ending -- for the two other people whom these losers didn't marry, instead of each other.
So I've given myself the challenge of keeping all the key motif beats in the story, and reworking the context so (a moderately) happy ending makes (a bit more) sense.
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Date: 2021-10-02 08:59 pm (UTC)Yeah. I used to think of Grimm Brothers versions of the stories as "The authentic originals" (because that's the propaganda they themselves pushed, and even many serious scholars took them at their word, until recently). I don't think that anymore, but it's still true that their versions are the ones that modern adapters choose to remix into other media.
But when I read the Grimm Bros. 1852 version of The Frog King, my first thought was: "Well, that's a happy ending -- for the two other people whom these losers didn't marry, instead of each other.
So I've given myself the challenge of keeping all the key motif beats in the story, and reworking the context so (a moderately) happy ending makes (a bit more) sense.