Unlike I did in April, I didn't officially join Camp NaNo with a work and a word count. I did decide that if so many more other people were going to write more in July than most other times for the 2015 Camp NaNoWriMo, then I might as well try to type more. Between the first of July and now, I have, in number of words:


502 - retelling Snow White (incomplete)
528 - retelling of Rapunzel (incomplete)
2758 - retelling Red Riding Hood (complete, but dissatisfying)
3316 - retelling the Lady of Lyn y Fan Fach (complete, but dissatisfying)
5324 - novelization of a student film (complete, but copyrighted)
0 - the novel I wanted to complete in May but only got up to 11,000 words
0 - the novel I wanted to complete last November but only got up to 2,000 words
0 - the novella I wanted to complete in one weekend but only got up to 2,000 words
12,428 TOTAL

Hurrah, I technically wrote more words this time than last time. Next goal: focus on completing at least one of the incomplete stories.

Wow that's fantastic Elly!!! Great work there!!

I love fairytales retold, and I have a weird obsession with Little Red Riding hood art....but my all time favourite is Beauty and the Beast .

You've got a wonderful array of work there to keep you entertained too, which is fantastic!

Bunny (01:27am Wed, Jul 29, 2015)

I love fairytales retold, and I have a weird obsession with Little Red Riding hood art....but my all time favourite is Beauty and the Beast .

Interestingly, it was Beauty and the Beast that I wanted to squish together with Red Riding Hood. Bruno Bettelheim analyzed fairy tales from a Freudian perspective, and put together what he called the "animal-groom cycle" (Beauty and the Beast, The Frog Prince, and Bluebeard even though that last one isn't an animal.) Why he kept Red Riding Hood separate was obvious, because she was usually little, so Bettelheim interpreted that fairy tale as more about social anxieties concerning pedophilia, and not personal anxieties concerning partnership. His interpretation is still alive in the new version of Into the Woods when Red Riding Hood is played by Lilla Crawford (12 years old, and Johnny Depp as the wolf has no subtlety about what this version of the story is really getting at.) But because so many other versions seem to like casting the very lovely Amanda Seyfried or Meghan Ory, I thought it was time for Red Riding Hood to become an animal-groom story.

Instead, it just stayed creepy.

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You've got a wonderful array of work there to keep you entertained too, which is fantastic!

It is! I've felt a bit burnt out with ghostwriting novels, so I've been returning to shorter projects. I'd like to build up to the longer ones again, though. Hopefully I'll be able to finish something upwards of 25,000 words that's my own for once!

Yeah I noticed that in Into The Woods!! I kept pushing it out of my mind ha ha. That was such a good movie though!