Fairy tales, no matter how young or old you are, captivate an audience. The ‘Once Upon A Time‘ beginnings told you some moral and dilemma would unfold. Readers love and continue to enjoy these tales, disappointed when they come to “and they lived happily ever after” part.
But how many writers out there have considered or used an outline from a fairy tale to come up with your own storylines? For example, let’s take The Three Little Pigs:
3 little pigs = 3 upcoming musicians
wolf = their agent who swindles them at some point of their earnings
straw hut = their small apartment
brick house = their mansion when they make it big
You’ve now used a fairy tale to come up with your own storyline by altering the characters, their setting, and added a motive for a conflict with the antagonist-the agent. Let’s dig deeper.
The three musicians are childhood friends or brothers a la ‘three pig’ theme. They’ve been playing as a band since high school. During college an agent signs them up and takes them on a tour. The boys are inexperienced in finances and trust their agent explicitly. During the story, however, seeds are dropped that this agent is a bit on the shady side prompting the readers to wait for the bomb to drop eventually on the boys. Although the readers have an inkling what’s going to happen, the questions keeping them posted to the book are:
- How will the boys react?
- What will they do?
- What’s going to happen to the agent?
- What’s going to happen to their musical careers?
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