My fairy tale leans a bit toward fantasy
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Topic: My fairy tale leans a bit toward fantasy
Posted By: Vernacula
Subject: My fairy tale leans a bit toward fantasy
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2017 at 10:35pm
How much is that gonna hurt? I see a lot of people doing genre-crossover stories (mostly comedy + ____), but are fairy and fantasy tooclose?
On a brighter note, I've got three little pigs in there smoking Marlboros. That's gotta count for something.
Best of luck, all!
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Posted By: Hrafnkel
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2017 at 11:05pm
As someone whose wheelhouse includes Fairy Tale and Fantasy, I'm of the opinion that some hazy boundaries there aren't going to hurt you at all.
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Posted By: GallifreyGirl
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2017 at 11:07pm
Your writing leans a bit toward genius so don't sweat it ;)
Also, I love this piece
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Posted By: kodanie1
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2017 at 11:37pm
A bit late, but check out Vladimir Propp's "Fairy Tale Transformations." He provides a list of events that make up every single fairy tale and seven Dramatis Personae, basic character types in a fairy tale. It's one of my favorite literary theory pieces.
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Posted By: Vernacula
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2017 at 11:47pm
Hrafnkel wrote:
As someone whose wheelhouse includes Fairy Tale and Fantasy, I'm of the opinion that some hazy boundaries there aren't going to hurt you at all. |
Great to see you! Thanks for the (welcome) opinion.
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Posted By: Vernacula
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2017 at 11:48pm
GallifreyGirl wrote:
Your writing leans a bit toward genius so don't sweat it ;)
Also, I love this piece |
You are the sweetest. xx
@kodanie1: Thanks! Will definitely check out.
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Posted By: paulene.turner
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 4:17am
GallifreyGirl wrote:
Your writing leans a bit toward genius so don't sweat it ;)
Also, I love this piece |
Yours leans a bit towards that way too, GallifreyGirl. Good to see u back.
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Posted By: plkphoto
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 5:43am
My Fantasy leans a little bit toward Fairytale... I think these things just happen... Especially with only 1000 words to play with.
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Posted By: number13
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 6:22am
I think my suspense has one foot in horror as well. Hopefully won't be given the sine die over it!
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Posted By: MegOverman
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 7:26am
My everything tends to lean toward horror.
My fairy tale (a couple years ago) was very fantasyesque and did well. Same for my fantasy that was similar to a fairy tale.
There's plenty of leeway, usually. Though it does always depend on judges.
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Posted By: Tynnyt
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 7:38am
My 'suspense' is pretty much a horror. Hopefully they'll take a loose approach to the definitions... I found 'suspense' so hard to work out. The definition is virtually the same as Thriller and they give 'Silence of the Lambs' as an example!
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Posted By: Vernacula
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 8:05am
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I always seem to get that one judge. You know the one. :-)
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Posted By: plkphoto
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 8:20am
Vernacula wrote:
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I always seem to get that one judge. You know the one. :-)
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Yeah... but they'll complain regardless, so might as well enjoy your own story, I say.
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Posted By: nod1v1ng
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 8:57am
Vernacula wrote:
On a brighter note, I've got three little pigs in there smoking Marlboros. That's gotta count for something.
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That I'm looking forward to reading... does that make them smoked pork?
I ended up writing a space drama. Long live the mash up.
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Posted By: Vernacula
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 9:19am
nod1v1ng wrote:
I ended up writing a space drama. Long live the mash up.
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Can't believe you didn't get a ghost story! Haha.
I wrote a space drama last year and did quite well with it, so I'm a fan of that plan (natch). Looking forward to reading yours and many others!
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Posted By: sootfoot5
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 10:47am
All fairy tales are fantasy while not all fantasy is a fairy tale. I researched this point while writing my story which is supposed to be in the fantasy genre but leans a bit more toward a fairy tale. BAH I care not.
It is my experience that if they like your story you can get away with just about anything, and if they don't like your story they will ding you to death. But seriously, I doubt you will be dinged for this.
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Posted By: nod1v1ng
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 10:52am
Vernacula wrote:
Can't believe you didn't get a ghost story! Haha.
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I literally did a happy dance when I read the prompts and didn't see ghost story. My dog thought I was a nutter... lol
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Posted By: lisafox10800
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 10:59am
My political satire is a mash-up with fairy tale/fantasy.
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Posted By: Zblugg
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 12:18pm
lisafox10800 wrote:
My political satire is a mash-up with fairy tale/fantasy.
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And it works.
Bigly.
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Posted By: _B_
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 12:23pm
MegOverman wrote:
My everything tends to lean toward horror.
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This is the major writing revelation I had this Flash Fiction - everything I do turns to horror - and I need to try work with that more.
The only thing that saved my fantasy piece (from this at least) was that the word count made me cut out the giant mine monster ;)
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Posted By: lisafox10800
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 1:47pm
Zblugg wrote:
lisafox10800 wrote:
My political satire is a mash-up with fairy tale/fantasy.
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And it works.
Bigly. |
😊
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Posted By: Archon1995
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 1:59pm
MegOverman wrote:
My everything tends to lean toward horror. |
My everything tends to lean towards sci-fi. *fistbump*
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Posted By: Hrafnkel
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 2:40pm
number13 wrote:
I think my suspense has one foot in horror as well. Hopefully won't be given the sine die over it! |
My horror has one foot in suspense, sometimes both.
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Posted By: Hrafnkel
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 2:41pm
Archon1995 wrote:
MegOverman wrote:
My everything tends to lean toward horror. |
My everything tends to lean towards sci-fi. *fistbump* |
You guys just co-wrote "Alien" (1979).
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Posted By: Vernacula
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 7:57pm
Hrafnkel wrote:
Archon1995 wrote:
MegOverman wrote:
My everything tends to lean toward horror. |
My everything tends to lean towards sci-fi. *fistbump* |
You guys just co-wrote "Alien" (1979). |
I'm getting strong "The Player" vibes from you today.
It's like Pretty Woman meets Predator, but with cats.
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Posted By: AGirlWWords
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 9:01pm
This is my first time with NYC Midnight and I am so relieved to read your comment, my Suspense story definitely has a whopping amount of the Thriller/Horror genre in there!It's definitely a suspenseful story, but I'm concerned re what exactly entails the Suspense genre... based on the website's genre definitions I'm hoping I'm ok
Fingers crossed for us both!
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Posted By: sootfoot5
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 9:45pm
_B_ wrote:
MegOverman wrote:
My everything tends to lean toward horror.
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This is the major writing revelation I had this Flash Fiction - everything I do turns to horror - and I need to try work with that more.
The only thing that saved my fantasy piece (from this at least) was that the word count made me cut out the giant mine monster ;) |
I'm curious about the childhood you people had. Just wondering..... it might make a great flash piece - writer with an unusual childhood can't stop writing horror stories.
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Posted By: Andrea
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 10:14pm
And my horror leans toward dark comedy, not sure it's horrible enough. But I know all about that judge you mentioned. I had him/her or should I say, "IT," for SSC. Talk about horror! We had differing opinions about what constitutes Political Satire.
Sigh.
But onward!!!
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Posted By: ottersdaughter
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2017 at 12:45am
Vernacula wrote:
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I always seem to get that one judge. You know the one. :-)
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The pretentious one with the big vocabulary and no taste? Yeah, I know the one
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Posted By: ottersdaughter
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2017 at 12:47am
I'd totally read that!
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