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writercises Original posting March 28. 2018
Aha! Someone was talking about folk tales on Facebook, and someone else suggested looking at the Aarne-Thompson-Uther classifications. So... with a little help from google, I found this!
http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu
Cool! Talk about a pile of potential sources of ideas!
Animal tales of various sorts, tales of magic, religious tales, realistic tales, tales of the stupid ogre (giant, devil), anecdotes and jokes, and various formula tales.
There you go! In case you didn’t have any ideas, yet another thought-provoker! Do set a timer, so that you don’t vanish into that listing and the stories given there. It’s almost as dangerous as TVtropes!
Just remember, a character, a problem or situation, opposition, and... what does the character want, how do they try to get it, and what happens then? Write, right, write!
Aha! Someone was talking about folk tales on Facebook, and someone else suggested looking at the Aarne-Thompson-Uther classifications. So... with a little help from google, I found this!
http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu
Cool! Talk about a pile of potential sources of ideas!
Animal tales of various sorts, tales of magic, religious tales, realistic tales, tales of the stupid ogre (giant, devil), anecdotes and jokes, and various formula tales.
There you go! In case you didn’t have any ideas, yet another thought-provoker! Do set a timer, so that you don’t vanish into that listing and the stories given there. It’s almost as dangerous as TVtropes!
Just remember, a character, a problem or situation, opposition, and... what does the character want, how do they try to get it, and what happens then? Write, right, write!