A Reprise

I began this story after reading a collection of short stories by Angela Carter. “Snow White” has always been a favorite tale of mine and I have placed this re-telling in nineteenth-century rural Louisiana. Near Vacherie, Louisiana, there are not only swamps but also old beautiful plantations. Some of them are restored but others are abandoned and ruined. The places I have seen captured my imagination and I combined them with my impression of Snow White as an object of envy and lust. My heroine Blanche is a hard-working girl who longs to be rich and to live in New Orleans, where her father was born. She is threatened constantly by the attention of the rustics who live around her. Her stepmother beats her when she finds Blanche in Jean-Jacques’ arms. When Blanche runs away from home she is beguiled by Philipe de la Roche, who persuades her to live in New Orleans in a fancy house with seven women. Blanche does not realize that the women are prostitutes. The farmer Jean-Jacques, who love

Everything I need to know I learned from The Last Unicorn... - I want to be a true magician, make real magic. - Now that I'm a woman, everything is strange, everything has changed. - I once knew myself, my purpose, but now I have forgotten who I am, and I am lonely, and afraid. - Even though I am one, and small, I can drive the red bull into the sea. Sorry this is not meaningful for anyone who isn't inside my head. I was listening to my Last Unicorn soundtrack on the way to work, and I still can't figure out exactly why it is the most important movie I have ever seen, and book I have ever read. I know for certain that something in the story calls to me, far beyond the characters and the fantasy setting, it speaks to me about who I really am. On the Internet this book was big for a while: Are you a unicorn? I wish I had the site, I would love to show it. Well, this site was built around the hypothesis that unicorns still exist in the world as humans. Some of us are

Today, creating a journal to work through my writing ideas. I want to write something like I've never read, and that can be difficult. In procrastinating I have been exploring much of the web and visiting the home pages of authors, etc. that I enjoy. I find nothing better sometimes than to read someone else's story, see how they got to where they are, and then dream up how I'm going to get to where I want to be. Right now I call what I am trying to write "gothic fantasy." I created one which crashed and burned, then had ideas for another, but I have a main character and no plot, likewise in the aformentioned story, a plot and no good characters. When creating fantasy, it seems most logical to start out with a "world." Before proceeding, you must create the world and the parameters within it in order to visualize the story. In my work "Dark Angel" (which has crashed and burned) I created a post-apocalyptic earth, and that continued to bother me.