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Lessons from Grimm: How to Write a Fairy Tale (Lessons From Grimm Series)
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About Lessons From Grimm: How To Write A Fairy Tale
Product Description Uncover the fairy tale secrets that made the Grimms famous. A poor man. A son. A girl. A mother. A king and a queen. Twelve brothers. The Grimm stories are about all kinds of people. From peasants to kings. From murderers to priests. Not to mention imaginative creatures like giants, elves, and water nixies.In fairy tales, there are few limits on who we can create or the stories we tell. Our characters don’t necessarily have to look or act a certain way. A young woman can have impossibly long hair, or a man can turn into a lion during the day. And an innocent looking spindle can change the course of a kingdom's history.In Lessons from Grimm, you’ll do a deep dive into how the Grimms handle key elements of genre, character, setting, plot, fairy tale magic, and theme. Bonus! The appendix includes comprehensive lists of characters, settings, plots, romance tropes, magic objects and more, saving you hours of research time. Get Lessons from Grimm today and get started writing your own magical tale. Review ★★★★★ "Simple enough to use in teaching creative writing and story structure to kids, and wise enough for seasoned writers to make use of it in clarifying and thinking about their own fairy-tale retellings. An excellent resource for writers of any age and level." -Goodreads review★★★★★ Of course, anyone can read the Grimm tales for themselves. But what the author has done here is to study every single one and analyse their components to help us see what makes a fairy tale. She draws out characters, tropes, magical objects, beginnings, challenges, endings, and talks about how we might use these to either work on retellings that will capture a reader's imagination, or to create our own fairy tales. She has examples for every one of her points, using the lesser-known tales on the whole, a nice reminder to me of tales I'd forgotten, undeservedly. The style is easy to read and each short, chapter has suggested exercises to work through as you write your tale. - Goodreads review From the Author Ready to up your storytelling game?The Lessons from Grimm Series includes a writer's guide, leveled workbooks, and writing prompts.① Lessons From Grimm: How to Write a Fairy TaleA writer's guide that teaches storytelling techniques based on Grimms' Fairy Tales.② Lessons From Grimm: WorkbooksFour levels of workbooks: A companion workbook, high school, middle school, and elementary school.③ Writing Prompts from GrimmTwo levels of fairy tale writing prompts for students: Grades 3-6 and 7-12 About the Author SHONNA SLAYTON is the author of the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series of young adult novels, beginning with Cinderella's Dress . She edited curriculum for an education company before homeschooling her own children using literature-based whole book learning. She's taught writing using fairy tales in school classrooms and workshops, as well as in public libraries as a writer in residence.
