Rules for Writing Fairytales

Ahh, fairytales. If you’ve read Fairy Tales Made Modern Volume 1 or heard about Queen Me or The Last Dragon, then I’m sure you know I love a good fairy tale.

So, that is the inspiration for today’s post, written by yours truly. *curtsies*

Rules for Writing Fairytales by Erin Hylands

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Five Steps for writing the stereotypical Fairy Tale

1. Do make it boringly similar to all the others, with the predictable plot and happy ending.

2. But sometimes you can have a sad ending where the character chooses to murder their true love or die, and they choose to die.

3. And there is always some sort of witch. Typically it is a woman of some sort. Actually, it’s always a woman of some sort.

4. There has to be treasure involved—whether that treasure is gold or silver or hair, it’s valuable and that’s what started the whole thing.

5. Don’t forget that the witch ends up dying. Except in some situations. Like the witch tricks the girl into eating the poisoned fruit so she’d die. Oh wait, even then the witch dies and the girl comes back to life.

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See what I mean? Again, if you’ve read Fairy Tales Made Modern, I basically have the witch woman of some sort who dies or doesn’t die in some situations. This is basically a paradox, isn’t it.

What is your favorite fairy tale and why? Comment below!