217666 769 Kids Games & Activities General Games & Activities true Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:03:04 -0700 How To Write a Modern Fairy Tale http://www.howcast.com/videos/217666-How-To-Write-a-Modern-Fairy-Tale http://www.howcast.com/videos/217666-How-To-Write-a-Modern-Fairy-Tale/edit live 0 Einstein999 http://img.howcast.com/images/icons/howto-xxlarge.png 1509 85410 1 0 Step Get Ready First, either go to a document on your computer or pick up a sheet of paper and a pencil. Think hard about fairy tales with components that have something like an equivalent today.

]]> 85411 2 0 Step Start Start with the same taglines most fairy tales use, like “Once upon a time”, “In a land far, far, away”, or “A long time ago”. But after them, put something in that totally contradicts the first line, like, “Once upon a time there was a man who ran a multi-billion dollar computer service”. This contradiction should continue throughout the story.

]]> 85412 3 0 Step Setting To continue, think about things in a fairy tale, like the bridge in “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”. Now think of a really famous bridge today, like the Golden Gate Bridge. Hey, there’s an idea! The Billy Goats Gruff crossing the Golden Gate Bridge!

]]> 85413 4 0 Step Characters After that, think of some way to change the people (or animals) in the story. For instance, you might change the story of Little Red Riding Hood by making the Wolf a proffessional thug who was actually hired by Granny, who runs an international- maybe even intergalactic- crime ring! From there you could develop the story even more.

]]> 85414 5 0 Step Info Add a lot of information in the story that hides the fact that it’s a fairy tale. Try to think up clever new names for stories, like, “Tom, the Boy Who was Genetically Under-Enhanced To Be the Size of a Thumb”. Put in information about a character’s life that wasn’t in the fairy tale.

]]> 85415 6 0 Step And They All Lived Happily Ever After When you’re done, the question really is, did they live happily ever after? Will you change the story so that the good guy is the bad guy and the bad guy is the good guy? In the end, will the prince reject the princess because she’s too delicate to sleep on a pea? The decision, whatever it turns out to be, is yours.

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