My Fairy Tale (Explanation)

I decided to write a modern fairy tale because I thought it would be really fun to do. It actually turned out to be harder than I thought. I tried to use the traditional fairy tale traits in my story but add a contemporary feel to it. I don't know if I actually accomplished that at all. The more traditional aspects were the fact that a royal family was involved and that the prince fell in love with a peasant girl. The more modern aspects were that Anabelle, the girl, saved Calen, the man and the prince and that they devised a bloody plan to save the prince from marrying a girl he didn't want to marry.

I really enjoyed creating the Anabelle character. She is definitely more like a Catskin Cinderella, even though she wasn't meant to be a Cinderella figure. Anabelle is strong, both mentally and physically. She is strong mentally and emotionally because she took care of her parents and played the role of both daughter and son. Anabelle is strong physically because she does all the hunting for her family and because she saved the prince from the panther, twice. She took hold of her destiny, realized what she wanted (Calen), and went for it.

One thing that I wanted to accomplish in my fairy tale but that didn't really happen is that I wanted to make Calen a strong character too. I ran out of creativity when it came to that though. I don't like it when guys are made to be wimps in stories and so I was kind of disappointed that my male character came out that way, but I still like my fairy tale. I'm sure that it could be better though if I went through and edited it and thought more, but since it's not going to be published or anything, I'm fine with my story.