When you were little did you enjoy fairytales? Did you let your imagination run wild and join the characters in the story. Did you, like me wish that you could stay in fairyland forever. I think every writer enjoyed fairyland and at one stage or another dreamed of following a white rabbit down a hole or being the most beautiful princess in the world who is rescued and married to the most handsome prince in the world. Of course everything ends 'happily ever after' and the conflict is always conquered, after all good will win out. But as writers we know that real life is very different to that. Fairytales like nursery rhymes, in many cases had quite bizarre even horrific double meanings that were pertinent to the time of writing. Telling a tale is just like that, a mixture of events that thrown into the cauldron to brew together tell the story of someone's journey through life.
Writers of all genres can learn from the fairytales of old, for they not only involved a fantasy world but their writers drew from a world of reality to spin their tales. The fairy tale gave a name and a reason to characters that the average person didn't understand; a reclusive old woman who picked herbs became a witch, a very tall man a giant, a small mischievous child a sprite,and so on.
Next time you read a book, write a story or tell a tale, bear in mind that the characters events, and places arn't really that different to the fairy tales of yesteryear,
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