How are birthdays commemorated by your characters or are they not considered important? Are the birthdays of, say, the ruling monarch celebrated (whether the people want to or not!)? Is your character's birthday the starting point for their adventure?
Birthdays in fairy tales can often be the event around which a story turns. For example, Sleeping Beauty's parents are warned about what will happen to their daughter on her 16th birthday. Do as they will to try to avoid it, only the fairy godmother's blunting of the original curse stops disaster. And in Cinderella the Prince's birthday is the catalyst for having the Palace ball and a reason for those invites to go out and for Cinders' own fairy godmother to turn up to ensure the girl did get to go to the ball.
How are birthdays commemorated by your characters or are they not considered important? Are the birthdays of, say, the ruling monarch celebrated (whether the people want to or not!)? Is your character's birthday the starting point for their adventure?
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AuthorI'm Allison Symes and I write novels, short stories as well as some scripts and poems. I love setting my work in my magical world, the Fairy Kingdom, and my favourite character is Eileen, who believes hypocrisy is something that happens to other people without caring that statement is hypocritical in itself! Eileen is huge fun to write for and about. Archives
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