Writers’ Memo

Stephanie Neumann and Adam Bostick

Mrs. Marilyn W. Russell

ENG112

March 30, 2008

 

The Writers’ Thoughts

 

            For our fairytale, we decided to write for a younger audience (children).  The moral of this story is: don’t lie, because it may come back to haunt you.  This is an important moral, because if everyone started lying all the time, out society could be a total disaster.

In this fairytale, there are 4 main characters.  There is a mother, two twin sisters, and a night.  It is set back during the 1700s in Europe.  Within the fairytale, the rhetorical device we used was pathos.  We believe that you feel a great sorrow for Ferna, because of the apparent lack of love from her mother.

Both of us sat down one day for hours and finally after many random ideas flew by, we found a winner!  After our long process of trying to come up with one story, we had to then come up with a retelling.  We used a program called comic life to create a children’s book.  It was very hard to work with a program we had never worked with before and hardly knew anything about.

Adam:  We had a lot of trouble just trying to come up with a story.  Many ideas that we came up with we had to scratch, because they had already been taken.  Originally we were going to find the names within the room we were sitting in, which actually worked for one, Carpetra.  When we tried to come up with the prince’s name, we came up with a humorous one (you’ll see when you read it).  You should also pay attention to the names of the twin sisters.

Stephanie:  It was a lot of fun creating this fairytale, but at the same time it was also somewhat frustrating.  One of the hardest parts was when we had to do the retelling of our original.  What was challenging about this was that we wanted to hold to a lot of our original ideas, but then it wouldn’t be much of a retelling.  In the end, I believed that both of us came up with great new ideas that really made the story great.

Both of us agree that creating this fairytale was a pretty enjoyable project.  Everything came together perfectly in the end and we hope that you will enjoy reading it as much as we did writing it.

 

P.S.  Don’t lie or you’ll turn purple.