Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.
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.
Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
Fairy-tales are nice.
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
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