I finally completed all the images I had in my head which were inspired by this year’s 2023 Folktale Week prompt words. I took a lot longer to do this challenge—I wanted to really let them sink in and percolate in my brain. They directly influenced the trajectory of the story in my adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood, and made it SO much stronger!!

I am so excited about progressing on this project. it’s going to be epic!

This moment is when Little Red discovers the spirit of her dead father, deep in the dark woods, where the three Fates have captured it and prevented his soul from transitioning to the afterlife. They’re using it as leverage against Little Red, so she’ll be forced to follow the path they’ve decreed as her destiny. And she’s fighting it.

It’s very complicated, but I’m incredibly stoked to make it happen. This has been a pet project of mine in the back of my head for a long time, and now I’m finally taking steps forward to making it real. It’s going to be a very long-term thing, and I’m sure I’ll lose my enthusiasm at points in the future, but I can picture the finished book in my head, so I’m gonna keep going. :)



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FOUND - 'Bluebeard'
A fairy tale by Charles Perrault, written in 1695. An archetype of toxic masculinity - a serial murderer whose most recent wife unlocks a forbidden room in his palace and finds the bodies of the unfortunate women who went before her. She drops the magical key to the room and the bloodstains on it later reveal her transgression to Bluebeard.
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