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a Fractured Fairy Tales inspired creative writing contest

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Snow Blind - a simple, sample fractured fairy tale

 

You will have a chance to submit your own fractured writing or poetry. As a diversion and tangent, I've included a few Fractured Fairy Tales from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

The original creative writing contest compendium was lost due to sacking and burning of the library in an alternate universe called Dodge City; a very long time ago. But that is a fractured fantasy story.

For now:
let's fracture some fairy tales.

It was the best of times, it was a dark and stormy night.



You too can write a fractured fairy tale. I'll make a plexo so we can share the pleasures of creative catharsis.


but first - a Fractured Fairy Tale 

The old Rocky and Bullwinkle show used these to separate segments, so will I.

These were great, although some of the points seem to be missing. Do you know the moral of this story (it was usually a bad pun).

Fractured Fairy Tales - Leaping Beauty

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SNOW BLIND by Allan Wallace 

Follow your own muse, this is just what mine seems to like.


This was the pimento in the olive in the extra dry gin martini of a particularly interesting day. A search had been made of the library.

The dwarf was not found.

As a library detective I was accustomed to strange, dangerous, and sometimes kinky happenings. The night now promised surprises even the most sanguine should avoid.

I was ready to embrace the surprises. Ready. Ready like an old lady who trusted the government is ready to eat her dog food.

Then SHE appeared at my cubicle.

Long legs carved by Michelangelo. More curves than a bowl of spaghetti, her skirt clinging like clam sauce. I'd heard two great monuments were missing in Europe, her blouse unsuccessfully tried to hide both of them. Perfectly seasoned skin without a taste of tan. Dark hair poured in waves off her shoulders like an oil slick onto a beach. She looked at me with dark blue eyes melted from a polar ice cap. In a voice of honey warmed with twenty year old brandy, Ms. S. White asked, "How much will you charge to find my dwarf?"

At the BFU smörgåsbord we ate food that tasted of romance and adventures to come.

We agreed on my fees.

Snow refused to eat her apple.

Was that great or what? 

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Snow White AND Rapunzel 

Another Fractured Fairy Tale.

This one comes with the moral. Hearing it, perhaps it is good the first one didn't have one.

Snow White meets Rapunzel - Fractured fairy tales

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Don't leave Ms. White alone, create your own imaginary imagery. 

How will I know if I've won?

This list is set up for peer review of your writing. Read and vote the offering up or down. I will edit out spam and obscene entries to the creative writing list; bad writing may be applauded.

I suspect that there will be short term favorites - but over the long haul the most creative will raise to the top. We will limit this to twenty entries, after that I may build a Son of Fractured lens for another contest. After we have twenty creative writing entries, and a stable winner, I'll send them a book (see below) on professional writing. One happily not written by me.

As I write this my phairy tale is the only entrant - that means I'm in first place!!! Since you can do better, do it. Do try to keep it under 200 words.

Your fractured story can be a winner too. Add it to an existing lens or - make a new lens. Perhaps that writer's workshop lens you keep meaning to draft. You might choose instead to make it a blog post - but you do need a link to add to the list. Write something wonderful and drop it into this list.

You can vote for your own story if you refresh the page {to refresh hit the favorite this page button ;-}

Flashes of Chocolate

The Little Match Girl travels forward to New Year's Eve in Times Square.2 points

Snow Blind

Better let you find out for yourself. Actually, you just skimmed past it.0 points

Inspiration is only a fractured book away. 

These are really fun reading -- really.

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

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Best Of Bad Hemingway: Vol 1: choice entries from the harry's bar & american grill imitation hemingway competition

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The Best of Bad Faulkner: choice entries from the faux faulkner contest

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If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

Contest Prize - if you have it, we'll find another. This is a very good book. If you want to know how to write professionally, pick this one up.

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A final Fractured Fairy Tale 

Once more I need to look to you, my dear reader, for the moral.

It may be easier to write your own tale and submit it above. But this Fractured Fairy Tale is sure to raise your aspirations.

Three Little Pigs 1961 - Fractured Fairy Tales

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Reader Feedback, or cough back, or ... 

There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas Edison

You know you have a fractured fairy tale or two in you. Don't get stuck on definitions - just tell a fantasy story in a new and twisted way - a point is optional, recognizable characters useful, having fun writing is mandatory.

If it helps, pick an author; Poe, O'Henry, Hans Christian Andersen, Gloria Steinman - and write in their style - but not as well. Unless you have to write well - some of you can't avoid it. Your style may launch a new genre.

Tickle your funny bone, then:

Let 'er rip!

Timewarp

Fun lens, Im still a bit unclear on what a fractured fairy tale is...is it just a parody?

Posted September 20, 2008

qlcoach

Great idea here about this contest! Thanks for sharing and interacting with our club too.
Gary Eby, author and therapist

Posted July 29, 2008

Not competing at the level of Snow blind, but these lenses will amaze you. 

If they don't amaze you, you aren't trying hard enough.

Click on one anyway.

 

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