I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.
In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.
There are no ugly ducklings.
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