Today’s Take Action Prompt: Familiar Fairy Tale |

Who Am I

What's Your Story- Isn't about time you found out?

Writing for Life: Creating a Story of Your Own

The therapeutic power of journaling, proven and embraced over the last century by doctors and psychologist, is an effective tool to improve health and achieve healing of the body, mind and spirit. It is more important then ever for us to know our own stories.

The journaling and scrapbooking techniques taught in this course provide a creative way to connect with the inner self and heal emotional wounds while documenting your story, your life in a fun and unique way. Be guided to build a foundation for writing for life.

Topics

Search

Subscribe to Our Blog

« When Writing of Love, Love the Artist Within | Main | Poetic Spam? The Quest for Inspiration »

Today’s Take Action Prompt: Familiar Fairy Tale

By Sandra Lee Schubert | February 13, 2008

Take a familiar fairy tale and write it from different points of view.

As an example, what about Cinderella’s step family? Why were her stepmother and sisters so mean? Maybe they had a difficult life? Or were just misunderstood?

Consider the fairy godmothers point of view. Where did her gifts come from?

Then choose a favorite family story and see if you can discover something new, maybe there is another side of someone you haven’t considered.
Next, try a popular plot line. A heroine and hero fall in love, they fight, break up and eventually get back together. How can you write that scenario with another twist? Don’t take every thing you see, hear, read or feel at face value. Consider other possibilities. Look around you with new eyes and see what is revealed to you.

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.