Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
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The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.
Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.
Fairy-tales are nice.
Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.
The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the same story. It's the same story, but with a different face.
Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
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