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tagging Star Log – Test Post – Please Ignore – Thank you!

When starting a new blog, I like to set up all the “possible” tags I may use over the years to come, and so I have them in the clickable drop down menu of my dashboard, I put them all on the first few posts of the blog – This is a very old post, copied from Star Log, to put my tags on this blog. The only thing this post contains is a list of every tag I have every used on Star Log. As each tag list can only contain 200 characters, there well be several of these posts, until all tags have been inserted into this blogs drop down feature. So, you can just ignore this post as it is only useful to me the blogger and not you the reader.

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This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com  If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat

Ice Realms, Ice Age, Frozen Planets, etc. Any Info?

Okay, so I’m still thinking I’ll go with my *Beauty and the Beast* plot, but now I’m wanting to do it in an ice age world/realm/planet, and I’m wondering though, on the hows and why of it being an ice realm, ice age type planet, and was hoping for some thoughts on this. This is kind of a two part question.

I originally asked this over in sci-fi forum, because I thought *on another planet = it must be sci-fi*, but the answers I got over there told me that sci-fi had to be based on real science and real planets that could really support life etc, and since the planet I was describing couldn’t possible be realistic, they told me I was not writing sci-fi, but was instead writing fantasy, and that I should be asking on the fantasy forum instead of the sci-fi forum. No one ever did give me any kind of an actual answer other than to send me here, so now I’m going to ask you guys here in fantasy instead, and see what you guys think.

I’m planning to retell 13 different fairy tales in a horror-type theme, but told on a distant ice realm planet setting instead of told on earth. Am I making sense so far?

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#1.) First off: What would you expect to find/see in an ice realm? Anything from landscape to plant life to what people wear to house people build to the type of daily weather. Basically, what do you think of when you think of an ice world? What would you expect to find if you was to visit or live there?

What types of animals, beasts, birds, fish, monsters, and/or mythical beast might you expect to find on an ice planet?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#2.) Secondly: I’m going on the theory that the planet was originally like our earth, but somehow froze over. What would cause a planet to become completely covered in ice and snow, yet still be able to sustain life? I’m looking for either scientific facts or something that could convincingly *sound* like it was scientific fact even though it isn’t. Though if being all scientific isn’t possible, I’m open to listening to just plain old random guesses too.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#3.) How believable is would it be for me to go with a back-story like this:

The way I’m plotting it out at the moment, I’m assuming that the planet was once a near duplicate of our earth more or less, but than a comet crashed into the planet’s atmosphere and altered the planet somehow, causing most of the planet’s surface to freeze over almost instantly, thus killing off 80 – 90% of the population. Those that survived have learned to adapt to the new ice world.

So my setting it with a primitive-lifestyle culture on a distant frozen planet, yet they have spaceships and laser weapons. I have a very clear image of these people in my head. I can see how they live and what they look like and I really, REALLY like them.

I’m liking the whole primitive folks on the ice planet, fighting off other aliens with space ships and laser weapons. (I did say Beauty and the Beast and other fairy tales in space right?) I’m plotting it all out in my head. Everything is moving along great, and I’m finally coming up with a story plan I think I can write for NaNo. So I ‘m here, building up the planet and the races and cultures and plant life and animal life, and designing the ships and weapons and than it hits me:

Primitive lifestyle with spaceships and laser weaponry? WTH?

By primitive I mean not quite cave people but not quite medieval either, somewhere in between. They still wear furs and skins, but they have woven cloth too (maybe left over from before?). They hunt with spears and swords (guns and cannons not yet invented or reinvented). They have no cars, or such, and still ride on horses (and dragons, this will have dragons in it too). One or two wealthy families have a wagon-like thing, but every body else walks or rides a beast of some sort. They do not have electricity, but use some weird crystals that acts like fire to bring warmth and light but doesn’t burn they hands so they can carry them around. (No way to build fires since the ice age started…uhm, not sure why yet.)

And yet, they have this huge intergalactic starship, and in it are several smaller space ships that can go from the planet’s surface to the starship. And here’s the oddest thing of all: they are carrying these laser weapons, kind of a 1950′s ray gun like thing. (I can actually see this story going all 1950′s B-movie cliche on me, if I’m not careful)

So here’s the thing that brings me here to you guys: How can they be such a primitive peoples, and yet have these ships and laser weapons? Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on how I might be able to explain this phenomena?

I’m thinking that maybe they had the tech years ago, but that some sort of massive *Armageddon* type event wiped out most of the population… and the ones that survived had no idea how to build the tech again, but somehow figured out how to use it at least minimally… (maybe leaving only children?…. thinking of the Star Trek episode Mira right now). Possibly that is also why they are living in an Ice Age as well?

And now my current era would be a few generations later.

Maybe they still have these items and keep them out of remembrance of their ancestors.

or maybe view these items as *god-like* because they have not figured out yet how to recreate them and so they only use them when *calling on the gods*?

Oh, and when I say they are a *primitive-lifestyle culture* I mean they are still living without advances sciences and stuff, so are still living like Medieval times without such things things as electricity and plumbing and such. I see them as very intelligent beings, but they just have yet to discover the ways to advance scientifically yet. I’m not saying that they are stupid or anything, just that their current science has not allowed them to advance out of a primitive-living off the land type of lifestyle yet. Basically they are content with the lifestyle they have so there is not too much goal to improve things; for the moment at least.

I’m still working on the details though, so I’m not sure exactly what I’ll end up deciding.

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#4.) Anyways, sorry this post got so very, very, very long (much longer than the original one on the sci-fi forum was!) I’m kind of working out details as I type. But, yeah, anything else you could think of to say about ice worlds, ice realms, frozen planets, or ice ages would be great. Real history or off the wall fantasy, just anything about living in icy realms real or fictional, would really help.

oh… and I’m seeing this going in a whole 10th Kingdom road… the 13 fairy tales being all kind of interconnected and turned into one long novel.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Thank You Kitty

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Ice Realms, Ice Age, Frozen Planets, etc. Any Info?

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Okay, so I’m still thinking I’ll go with my *Beauty and the Beast* plot, but now I’m wanting to do it in an ice age world/realm/planet, and I’m wondering though, on the hows and why of it being an ice realm, ice age type planet, and was hoping for some thoughts on this. This is kind of a two part question.

I originally asked this over in sci-fi forum, because I thought *on another planet = it must be sci-fi*, but the answers I got over there told me that sci-fi had to be based on real science and real planets that could really support life etc, and since the planet I was describing couldn’t possible be realistic, they told me I was not writing sci-fi, but was instead writing fantasy, and that I should be asking on the fantasy forum instead of the sci-fi forum. No one ever did give me any kind of an actual answer other than to send me here, so now I’m going to ask you guys here in fantasy instead, and see what you guys think.

I’m planning to retell 13 different fairy tales in a horror-type theme, but told on a distant ice realm planet setting instead of told on earth. Am I making sense so far?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#1.) First off: What would you expect to find/see in an ice realm? Anything from landscape to plant life to what people wear to house people build to the type of daily weather. Basically, what do you think of when you think of an ice world? What would you expect to find if you was to visit or live there?

What types of animals, beasts, birds, fish, monsters, and/or mythical beast might you expect to find on an ice planet?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#2.) Secondly: I’m going on the theory that the planet was originally like our earth, but somehow froze over. What would cause a planet to become completely covered in ice and snow, yet still be able to sustain life? I’m looking for either scientific facts or something that could convincingly *sound* like it was scientific fact even though it isn’t. Though if being all scientific isn’t possible, I’m open to listening to just plain old random guesses too.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#3.) How believable is would it be for me to go with a back-story like this:

The way I’m plotting it out at the moment, I’m assuming that the planet was once a near duplicate of our earth more or less, but than a comet crashed into the planet’s atmosphere and altered the planet somehow, causing most of the planet’s surface to freeze over almost instantly, thus killing off 80 – 90% of the population. Those that survived have learned to adapt to the new ice world.

So my setting it with a primitive-lifestyle culture on a distant frozen planet, yet they have spaceships and laser weapons. I have a very clear image of these people in my head. I can see how they live and what they look like and I really, REALLY like them.

I’m liking the whole primitive folks on the ice planet, fighting off other aliens with space ships and laser weapons. (I did say Beauty and the Beast and other fairy tales in space right?) I’m plotting it all out in my head. Everything is moving along great, and I’m finally coming up with a story plan I think I can write for NaNo. So I ‘m here, building up the planet and the races and cultures and plant life and animal life, and designing the ships and weapons and than it hits me:

Primitive lifestyle with spaceships and laser weaponry? WTH?

By primitive I mean not quite cave people but not quite medieval either, somewhere in between. They still wear furs and skins, but they have woven cloth too (maybe left over from before?). They hunt with spears and swords (guns and cannons not yet invented or reinvented). They have no cars, or such, and still ride on horses (and dragons, this will have dragons in it too). One or two wealthy families have a wagon-like thing, but every body else walks or rides a beast of some sort. They do not have electricity, but use some weird crystals that acts like fire to bring warmth and light but doesn’t burn they hands so they can carry them around. (No way to build fires since the ice age started…uhm, not sure why yet.)

And yet, they have this huge intergalactic starship, and in it are several smaller space ships that can go from the planet’s surface to the starship. And here’s the oddest thing of all: they are carrying these laser weapons, kind of a 1950′s ray gun like thing. (I can actually see this story going all 1950′s B-movie cliche on me, if I’m not careful)

So here’s the thing that brings me here to you guys: How can they be such a primitive peoples, and yet have these ships and laser weapons? Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on how I might be able to explain this phenomena?

I’m thinking that maybe they had the tech years ago, but that some sort of massive *Armageddon* type event wiped out most of the population… and the ones that survived had no idea how to build the tech again, but somehow figured out how to use it at least minimally… (maybe leaving only children?…. thinking of the Star Trek episode Mira right now). Possibly that is also why they are living in an Ice Age as well?

And now my current era would be a few generations later.

Maybe they still have these items and keep them out of remembrance of their ancestors.

or maybe view these items as *god-like* because they have not figured out yet how to recreate them and so they only use them when *calling on the gods*?

Oh, and when I say they are a *primitive-lifestyle culture* I mean they are still living without advances sciences and stuff, so are still living like Medieval times without such things things as electricity and plumbing and such. I see them as very intelligent beings, but they just have yet to discover the ways to advance scientifically yet. I’m not saying that they are stupid or anything, just that their current science has not allowed them to advance out of a primitive-living off the land type of lifestyle yet. Basically they are content with the lifestyle they have so there is not too much goal to improve things; for the moment at least.

I’m still working on the details though, so I’m not sure exactly what I’ll end up deciding.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#4.) Anyways, sorry this post got so very, very, very long (much longer than the original one on the sci-fi forum was!) I’m kind of working out details as I type. But, yeah, anything else you could think of to say about ice worlds, ice realms, frozen planets, or ice ages would be great. Real history or off the wall fantasy, just anything about living in icy realms real or fictional, would really help.

oh… and I’m seeing this going in a whole 10th Kingdom road… the 13 fairy tales being all kind of interconnected and turned into one long novel.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Thank You Kitty

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>Ice Realms, Ice Age, Frozen Planets, etc. Any Info?

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Okay, so I’m still thinking I’ll go with my *Beauty and the Beast* plot, but now I’m wanting to do it in an ice age world/realm/planet, and I’m wondering though, on the hows and why of it being an ice realm, ice age type planet, and was hoping for some thoughts on this. This is kind of a two part question.

I originally asked this over in sci-fi forum, because I thought *on another planet = it must be sci-fi*, but the answers I got over there told me that sci-fi had to be based on real science and real planets that could really support life etc, and since the planet I was describing couldn’t possible be realistic, they told me I was not writing sci-fi, but was instead writing fantasy, and that I should be asking on the fantasy forum instead of the sci-fi forum. No one ever did give me any kind of an actual answer other than to send me here, so now I’m going to ask you guys here in fantasy instead, and see what you guys think.

I’m planning to retell 13 different fairy tales in a horror-type theme, but told on a distant ice realm planet setting instead of told on earth. Am I making sense so far?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#1.) First off: What would you expect to find/see in an ice realm? Anything from landscape to plant life to what people wear to house people build to the type of daily weather. Basically, what do you think of when you think of an ice world? What would you expect to find if you was to visit or live there?

What types of animals, beasts, birds, fish, monsters, and/or mythical beast might you expect to find on an ice planet?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#2.) Secondly: I’m going on the theory that the planet was originally like our earth, but somehow froze over. What would cause a planet to become completely covered in ice and snow, yet still be able to sustain life? I’m looking for either scientific facts or something that could convincingly *sound* like it was scientific fact even though it isn’t. Though if being all scientific isn’t possible, I’m open to listening to just plain old random guesses too.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#3.) How believable is would it be for me to go with a back-story like this:

The way I’m plotting it out at the moment, I’m assuming that the planet was once a near duplicate of our earth more or less, but than a comet crashed into the planet’s atmosphere and altered the planet somehow, causing most of the planet’s surface to freeze over almost instantly, thus killing off 80 – 90% of the population. Those that survived have learned to adapt to the new ice world.

So my setting it with a primitive-lifestyle culture on a distant frozen planet, yet they have spaceships and laser weapons. I have a very clear image of these people in my head. I can see how they live and what they look like and I really, REALLY like them.

I’m liking the whole primitive folks on the ice planet, fighting off other aliens with space ships and laser weapons. (I did say Beauty and the Beast and other fairy tales in space right?) I’m plotting it all out in my head. Everything is moving along great, and I’m finally coming up with a story plan I think I can write for NaNo. So I ‘m here, building up the planet and the races and cultures and plant life and animal life, and designing the ships and weapons and than it hits me:

Primitive lifestyle with spaceships and laser weaponry? WTH?

By primitive I mean not quite cave people but not quite medieval either, somewhere in between. They still wear furs and skins, but they have woven cloth too (maybe left over from before?). They hunt with spears and swords (guns and cannons not yet invented or reinvented). They have no cars, or such, and still ride on horses (and dragons, this will have dragons in it too). One or two wealthy families have a wagon-like thing, but every body else walks or rides a beast of some sort. They do not have electricity, but use some weird crystals that acts like fire to bring warmth and light but doesn’t burn they hands so they can carry them around. (No way to build fires since the ice age started…uhm, not sure why yet.)

And yet, they have this huge intergalactic starship, and in it are several smaller space ships that can go from the planet’s surface to the starship. And here’s the oddest thing of all: they are carrying these laser weapons, kind of a 1950′s ray gun like thing. (I can actually see this story going all 1950′s B-movie cliche on me, if I’m not careful)

So here’s the thing that brings me here to you guys: How can they be such a primitive peoples, and yet have these ships and laser weapons? Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on how I might be able to explain this phenomena?

I’m thinking that maybe they had the tech years ago, but that some sort of massive *Armageddon* type event wiped out most of the population… and the ones that survived had no idea how to build the tech again, but somehow figured out how to use it at least minimally… (maybe leaving only children?…. thinking of the Star Trek episode Mira right now). Possibly that is also why they are living in an Ice Age as well?

And now my current era would be a few generations later.

Maybe they still have these items and keep them out of remembrance of their ancestors.

or maybe view these items as *god-like* because they have not figured out yet how to recreate them and so they only use them when *calling on the gods*?

Oh, and when I say they are a *primitive-lifestyle culture* I mean they are still living without advances sciences and stuff, so are still living like Medieval times without such things things as electricity and plumbing and such. I see them as very intelligent beings, but they just have yet to discover the ways to advance scientifically yet. I’m not saying that they are stupid or anything, just that their current science has not allowed them to advance out of a primitive-living off the land type of lifestyle yet. Basically they are content with the lifestyle they have so there is not too much goal to improve things; for the moment at least.

I’m still working on the details though, so I’m not sure exactly what I’ll end up deciding.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#4.) Anyways, sorry this post got so very, very, very long (much longer than the original one on the sci-fi forum was!) I’m kind of working out details as I type. But, yeah, anything else you could think of to say about ice worlds, ice realms, frozen planets, or ice ages would be great. Real history or off the wall fantasy, just anything about living in icy realms real or fictional, would really help.

oh… and I’m seeing this going in a whole 10th Kingdom road… the 13 fairy tales being all kind of interconnected and turned into one long novel.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Thank You Kitty

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Beauty & the Beast: Care to give some advice?

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I found another question on NaNoWriMo which begged me to answer it: Beauty & the Beast: Care to give some advice?

So, I was wondering if there was anyone out there who thought this was a worthwhile plot idea for November…

I was thinking that maybe I could go along the idea of ‘wicked’ and do that to another fairytale: beauty and the beast. The thing is, it’d have to be off of the disney version, because I don’t recall ever reading about another guy in the original fairytales…I have some ideas as to why the ‘Gaston’ character might not be so bad, but I’m still planning it all out.

Anyway, I was thinking, that if I did go along with that idea, I might have to use the same names…I and I don’t know if I want to do that. What do you all think? Should I used, “Gaston”, “Belle”, and “Adam” or make up new names? I still might use “Belle”, but the thing is, In ‘wicked’ the names stayed the same, and the wicked witches (west and east) along with the tin man and scarecrow, were named, but only because they didn’t officially have one.

I’m at a loss here, so I’d love some feedback on both the idea, and the naming issue.

If you plan to publish it, you would have to change the names, because Disney does sue anyone who attempts to publish fanfiction. While BatB is a public domain story, using the names Disney used would get your story classified as fanfiction, because the Disney-versions of the characters are copyrighted.

The original story consisted of the following characters:

    The wealthy merchant
    The merchant’s 3 daughters (Beauty was the youngest of the three)
    A suitor (who courted Beauty, but she couldn’t stand him; her older sisters hated her because he never noticed them)
    The beast/prince
    The fairy queen

there were no other characters in the original version

The original story goes like this:

    Wealthy merchant leaves home and is gone at sea for 2 years leaving his 3 daughters alone. The two eldest daughters were very plain, but made up for it by wearing fancy outfits. The youngest daughter was named Beauty because she was the most beautiful child ever born. Her two older sisters treated her cruelly and made her a servant in her house while their father was away. Beauty wore rags and slept in the garden shed.

    (Beauty and the Beast is a lot like Cinderella, btw, both stories being written by Charles Perault)

    A young man from the village visited Beauty daily, hoping to one day make her his wife, but she always refused him. Her sisters treated her poorly because the young man never came to call on them.

    Meanwhile the merchant has returned from sea, but is now penniless, having lost his entire fleet and all it’s cargo to a storm at sea.

    The storm continues on land and he loses his way while traveling home, and takes a wrong road leading into a dark forest, where is seeks shelter in an ancient castle that has fallen into ruins.

    In the morning the storm is gone and the merchant leaves, but picks a rose from the garden on his way out, and is attacked by the beast for stealing the thing he loved the most: his roses. The terrified merchant retells his tale of woe, explaining that he had offered to bring his daughters pearls, gowns, and other riches, but now he has nothing and will have to sell his home just to provide for his family. He than explains that his youngest daughter refused to accept all riches, that she asked only for a rose because she had heard of them, but had never seen one before.

    The beast tosses the merchant on a magic horse and says tat the horse will take him home and will return with the daughter who asked for the rose, that he will kill her instead of the merchant.

    The merchant is taken home by the horse, retells the tale to his daughters, that night Beauty sneaks out and searches for the horse, it arrives and takes her to the castle, where she expects to be killed but is instead treated like a princess.

    Years pass and Beauty rarely ever sees the beast, but she finds and enchanted mirror that shows her images (like watching tv) of a king and queen being punished by the fairies because they had taught their infant prince that fairies were not real. Each night Beauty watches this same event in the mirror, but each night the mirror shows her a little bit more.

    She becomes convinced that the beast is working for the fairies and is holding the infant prince captive in the castle, so she sets out in search of him.

    As time passes she starts seeing more and more of the beast, and eventually he begins to join her for dinner each night and only speaks to ask her to marry him.

    One day the mirror shows her, her father who is dieing. She seeks out the beast and begs him to allow her to visit her father one last time before he dies. Beast gives Beauty a magic ring telling her that she may go home but only if she returns to the castle before 7 days pass. The ring takes her home, where she finds that though only month have passed for her in the castle, many, many years have passed back in the real world. While she is still young and beautiful her father is now ancient and her sisters are both very old.

    Beauty takes care of her father, but tells him she can only stay 7 days. The young suitor, now older, still calls on Beauty. The sisters, still jealous, steal the ring and sell it. The suitor, her father, and the sisters, keep Beauty busy, by taking her all over the village to see all the things she’s missed over the years. Soon she has forgotten all about the ring and the beast, and days turn into weeks, and weeks turn into months. Memory of the Beast fades away until it seems like a childhood dream.

    One night Beauty hers her name across the wind and wakes up to see the fairy queen standing over her and pointing to the mirror in her bedroom. She looks and sees that her mirror is now showing her images the same way the one in the castle had, and it is showing her the Beast, lying on the ground in the rose garden, saying “Remember your promise”.

    Beauty remembers her promise, looks for the ring, finds is missing. Her suitor comes to the rescue saying he bought the ring knowing how much it meant to her, she takes the ring, returns to the Beast, but finds she is too late, for the Beast died of a broken heart.

    In tears Beauty says she loves the Beast and would do anything to bring him back. The Fairy Queen appears again, this time with the ghosts of the King and Queen. Fairy Queen lifts the spell, revealing that the Beast was the child in the mirror. Lifting the curse restores his life. He and Beauty marry and than go to the land of the fairies to rule their kingdom.

And there you have it. The original version of Beauty and the Beast, one that you actually, will have a pretty hard time finding a copy of as every body rewrites it and changes it.

you should check out this thread about rewriting Beauty & the Beast for NaNo08: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3010939

there’s lots of great comments over there that should help you out… they are helping me out, because I too am planning to do BatB for NaNo this year.

Did I mention that Beauty and the Beast was my favorite story as a child and I spent much of my childhood collecting various copies of the book, and now today, I love it still as much as I did than?

Added you to my Buddy list, btw… I’m *collecting* BatB Buddies this year here on NaNo

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What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Thank You Kitty

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Beauty & the Beast: Care to give some advice?

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I found another question on NaNoWriMo which begged me to answer it: Beauty & the Beast: Care to give some advice?

So, I was wondering if there was anyone out there who thought this was a worthwhile plot idea for November…

I was thinking that maybe I could go along the idea of ‘wicked’ and do that to another fairytale: beauty and the beast. The thing is, it’d have to be off of the disney version, because I don’t recall ever reading about another guy in the original fairytales…I have some ideas as to why the ‘Gaston’ character might not be so bad, but I’m still planning it all out.

Anyway, I was thinking, that if I did go along with that idea, I might have to use the same names…I and I don’t know if I want to do that. What do you all think? Should I used, “Gaston”, “Belle”, and “Adam” or make up new names? I still might use “Belle”, but the thing is, In ‘wicked’ the names stayed the same, and the wicked witches (west and east) along with the tin man and scarecrow, were named, but only because they didn’t officially have one.

I’m at a loss here, so I’d love some feedback on both the idea, and the naming issue.

If you plan to publish it, you would have to change the names, because Disney does sue anyone who attempts to publish fanfiction. While BatB is a public domain story, using the names Disney used would get your story classified as fanfiction, because the Disney-versions of the characters are copyrighted.

The original story consisted of the following characters:

    The wealthy merchant
    The merchant’s 3 daughters (Beauty was the youngest of the three)
    A suitor (who courted Beauty, but she couldn’t stand him; her older sisters hated her because he never noticed them)
    The beast/prince
    The fairy queen

there were no other characters in the original version

The original story goes like this:

    Wealthy merchant leaves home and is gone at sea for 2 years leaving his 3 daughters alone. The two eldest daughters were very plain, but made up for it by wearing fancy outfits. The youngest daughter was named Beauty because she was the most beautiful child ever born. Her two older sisters treated her cruelly and made her a servant in her house while their father was away. Beauty wore rags and slept in the garden shed.

    (Beauty and the Beast is a lot like Cinderella, btw, both stories being written by Charles Perault)

    A young man from the village visited Beauty daily, hoping to one day make her his wife, but she always refused him. Her sisters treated her poorly because the young man never came to call on them.

    Meanwhile the merchant has returned from sea, but is now penniless, having lost his entire fleet and all it’s cargo to a storm at sea.

    The storm continues on land and he loses his way while traveling home, and takes a wrong road leading into a dark forest, where is seeks shelter in an ancient castle that has fallen into ruins.

    In the morning the storm is gone and the merchant leaves, but picks a rose from the garden on his way out, and is attacked by the beast for stealing the thing he loved the most: his roses. The terrified merchant retells his tale of woe, explaining that he had offered to bring his daughters pearls, gowns, and other riches, but now he has nothing and will have to sell his home just to provide for his family. He than explains that his youngest daughter refused to accept all riches, that she asked only for a rose because she had heard of them, but had never seen one before.

    The beast tosses the merchant on a magic horse and says tat the horse will take him home and will return with the daughter who asked for the rose, that he will kill her instead of the merchant.

    The merchant is taken home by the horse, retells the tale to his daughters, that night Beauty sneaks out and searches for the horse, it arrives and takes her to the castle, where she expects to be killed but is instead treated like a princess.

    Years pass and Beauty rarely ever sees the beast, but she finds and enchanted mirror that shows her images (like watching tv) of a king and queen being punished by the fairies because they had taught their infant prince that fairies were not real. Each night Beauty watches this same event in the mirror, but each night the mirror shows her a little bit more.

    She becomes convinced that the beast is working for the fairies and is holding the infant prince captive in the castle, so she sets out in search of him.

    As time passes she starts seeing more and more of the beast, and eventually he begins to join her for dinner each night and only speaks to ask her to marry him.

    One day the mirror shows her, her father who is dieing. She seeks out the beast and begs him to allow her to visit her father one last time before he dies. Beast gives Beauty a magic ring telling her that she may go home but only if she returns to the castle before 7 days pass. The ring takes her home, where she finds that though only month have passed for her in the castle, many, many years have passed back in the real world. While she is still young and beautiful her father is now ancient and her sisters are both very old.

    Beauty takes care of her father, but tells him she can only stay 7 days. The young suitor, now older, still calls on Beauty. The sisters, still jealous, steal the ring and sell it. The suitor, her father, and the sisters, keep Beauty busy, by taking her all over the village to see all the things she’s missed over the years. Soon she has forgotten all about the ring and the beast, and days turn into weeks, and weeks turn into months. Memory of the Beast fades away until it seems like a childhood dream.

    One night Beauty hers her name across the wind and wakes up to see the fairy queen standing over her and pointing to the mirror in her bedroom. She looks and sees that her mirror is now showing her images the same way the one in the castle had, and it is showing her the Beast, lying on the ground in the rose garden, saying “Remember your promise”.

    Beauty remembers her promise, looks for the ring, finds is missing. Her suitor comes to the rescue saying he bought the ring knowing how much it meant to her, she takes the ring, returns to the Beast, but finds she is too late, for the Beast died of a broken heart.

    In tears Beauty says she loves the Beast and would do anything to bring him back. The Fairy Queen appears again, this time with the ghosts of the King and Queen. Fairy Queen lifts the spell, revealing that the Beast was the child in the mirror. Lifting the curse restores his life. He and Beauty marry and than go to the land of the fairies to rule their kingdom.

And there you have it. The original version of Beauty and the Beast, one that you actually, will have a pretty hard time finding a copy of as every body rewrites it and changes it.

you should check out this thread about rewriting Beauty & the Beast for NaNo08: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3010939

there’s lots of great comments over there that should help you out… they are helping me out, because I too am planning to do BatB for NaNo this year.

Did I mention that Beauty and the Beast was my favorite story as a child and I spent much of my childhood collecting various copies of the book, and now today, I love it still as much as I did than?

Added you to my Buddy list, btw… I’m *collecting* BatB Buddies this year here on NaNo

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How I Reached 50k
Create a Fantasy Realm
Help Me Rewrite Beauty & the Beast for NaNo08!
Improving your writing: What do you look for in a book?

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>Beauty & the Beast: Care to give some advice?

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I found another question on NaNoWriMo which begged me to answer it: Beauty & the Beast: Care to give some advice?

So, I was wondering if there was anyone out there who thought this was a worthwhile plot idea for November…

I was thinking that maybe I could go along the idea of ‘wicked’ and do that to another fairytale: beauty and the beast. The thing is, it’d have to be off of the disney version, because I don’t recall ever reading about another guy in the original fairytales…I have some ideas as to why the ‘Gaston’ character might not be so bad, but I’m still planning it all out.

Anyway, I was thinking, that if I did go along with that idea, I might have to use the same names…I and I don’t know if I want to do that. What do you all think? Should I used, “Gaston”, “Belle”, and “Adam” or make up new names? I still might use “Belle”, but the thing is, In ‘wicked’ the names stayed the same, and the wicked witches (west and east) along with the tin man and scarecrow, were named, but only because they didn’t officially have one.

I’m at a loss here, so I’d love some feedback on both the idea, and the naming issue.

If you plan to publish it, you would have to change the names, because Disney does sue anyone who attempts to publish fanfiction. While BatB is a public domain story, using the names Disney used would get your story classified as fanfiction, because the Disney-versions of the characters are copyrighted.

The original story consisted of the following characters:

    The wealthy merchant
    The merchant’s 3 daughters (Beauty was the youngest of the three)
    A suitor (who courted Beauty, but she couldn’t stand him; her older sisters hated her because he never noticed them)
    The beast/prince
    The fairy queen

there were no other characters in the original version

The original story goes like this:

    Wealthy merchant leaves home and is gone at sea for 2 years leaving his 3 daughters alone. The two eldest daughters were very plain, but made up for it by wearing fancy outfits. The youngest daughter was named Beauty because she was the most beautiful child ever born. Her two older sisters treated her cruelly and made her a servant in her house while their father was away. Beauty wore rags and slept in the garden shed.

    (Beauty and the Beast is a lot like Cinderella, btw, both stories being written by Charles Perault)

    A young man from the village visited Beauty daily, hoping to one day make her his wife, but she always refused him. Her sisters treated her poorly because the young man never came to call on them.

    Meanwhile the merchant has returned from sea, but is now penniless, having lost his entire fleet and all it’s cargo to a storm at sea.

    The storm continues on land and he loses his way while traveling home, and takes a wrong road leading into a dark forest, where is seeks shelter in an ancient castle that has fallen into ruins.

    In the morning the storm is gone and the merchant leaves, but picks a rose from the garden on his way out, and is attacked by the beast for stealing the thing he loved the most: his roses. The terrified merchant retells his tale of woe, explaining that he had offered to bring his daughters pearls, gowns, and other riches, but now he has nothing and will have to sell his home just to provide for his family. He than explains that his youngest daughter refused to accept all riches, that she asked only for a rose because she had heard of them, but had never seen one before.

    The beast tosses the merchant on a magic horse and says tat the horse will take him home and will return with the daughter who asked for the rose, that he will kill her instead of the merchant.

    The merchant is taken home by the horse, retells the tale to his daughters, that night Beauty sneaks out and searches for the horse, it arrives and takes her to the castle, where she expects to be killed but is instead treated like a princess.

    Years pass and Beauty rarely ever sees the beast, but she finds and enchanted mirror that shows her images (like watching tv) of a king and queen being punished by the fairies because they had taught their infant prince that fairies were not real. Each night Beauty watches this same event in the mirror, but each night the mirror shows her a little bit more.

    She becomes convinced that the beast is working for the fairies and is holding the infant prince captive in the castle, so she sets out in search of him.

    As time passes she starts seeing more and more of the beast, and eventually he begins to join her for dinner each night and only speaks to ask her to marry him.

    One day the mirror shows her, her father who is dieing. She seeks out the beast and begs him to allow her to visit her father one last time before he dies. Beast gives Beauty a magic ring telling her that she may go home but only if she returns to the castle before 7 days pass. The ring takes her home, where she finds that though only month have passed for her in the castle, many, many years have passed back in the real world. While she is still young and beautiful her father is now ancient and her sisters are both very old.

    Beauty takes care of her father, but tells him she can only stay 7 days. The young suitor, now older, still calls on Beauty. The sisters, still jealous, steal the ring and sell it. The suitor, her father, and the sisters, keep Beauty busy, by taking her all over the village to see all the things she’s missed over the years. Soon she has forgotten all about the ring and the beast, and days turn into weeks, and weeks turn into months. Memory of the Beast fades away until it seems like a childhood dream.

    One night Beauty hers her name across the wind and wakes up to see the fairy queen standing over her and pointing to the mirror in her bedroom. She looks and sees that her mirror is now showing her images the same way the one in the castle had, and it is showing her the Beast, lying on the ground in the rose garden, saying “Remember your promise”.

    Beauty remembers her promise, looks for the ring, finds is missing. Her suitor comes to the rescue saying he bought the ring knowing how much it meant to her, she takes the ring, returns to the Beast, but finds she is too late, for the Beast died of a broken heart.

    In tears Beauty says she loves the Beast and would do anything to bring him back. The Fairy Queen appears again, this time with the ghosts of the King and Queen. Fairy Queen lifts the spell, revealing that the Beast was the child in the mirror. Lifting the curse restores his life. He and Beauty marry and than go to the land of the fairies to rule their kingdom.

And there you have it. The original version of Beauty and the Beast, one that you actually, will have a pretty hard time finding a copy of as every body rewrites it and changes it.

you should check out this thread about rewriting Beauty & the Beast for NaNo08: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3010939

there’s lots of great comments over there that should help you out… they are helping me out, because I too am planning to do BatB for NaNo this year.

Did I mention that Beauty and the Beast was my favorite story as a child and I spent much of my childhood collecting various copies of the book, and now today, I love it still as much as I did than?

Added you to my Buddy list, btw… I’m *collecting* BatB Buddies this year here on NaNo

———-
How I Reached 50k
Create a Fantasy Realm
Help Me Rewrite Beauty & the Beast for NaNo08!
Improving your writing: What do you look for in a book?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Thank You Kitty

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Create your own banner at mybannermaker.com!

Create your own banner at mybannermaker.com!

When Next You See Me I’ll Look Like This:

Obsessed? I’m Not Obsessed… REALLY, I’m not!

Create your own banner at mybannermaker.com!

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