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Featured Story For June 2007 - Not Your Average Cinderella Story by Honey
mare:
Hey Kelly here's my first question for you :)
I read the prologue and I love how you named your character Cinderella, I wasn't expecting that. What made you do that? Did you know from the start you were going to do that or was it an idea that popped into your head as you were writing?
RokofAges75:
^ I love that too because normally, a character named "Cinderella" in a Bsb fic would scream Mary Sue to me, but I love her explanation for it - how she hates it and blames it on her drunken, white trash mother LOL. Cause really... who would actually name their kid that?? (Uh, no offense to anyone who's considering the name Cinderalla for their daughter... :P)
honey:
uh, didn't you know? Cinderella is my daughter's name :P ok, not really. Yeah... that wouldn't be cool. I love the question Mare. Actually I guess I had her name picked out from the begining. I was reading Sarah's story, "Once Upon a Time" which is an AU remake of the Cinderella fairytale which happens to be my favorite story of all time. (yup, cheesy romance... are we seeing a pattern here? -lol) anyway, then I just felt like watching the movie and I decided I wanted to tell my own version of the tale. (you inspired me chica! ;)) At first I thought of making it a fantsay where she really was the real Cinderella and the boys were somehow dropped into her fairytale but ended up comming up with a much darker version. But I liked the idea of keeping all the similarities in the story, (I make more than one reference to the tale of Cinderella) so I kept the name.
I also got a big kick out of it because it is totally a BSB Mary Sue name and Cindy's practically an anti Mary Sue. I wondered if people would cringe but then I figured it was OK because of her attitude toward it and that she shortens the name to Cindy (which is a totally regular common name) so then I figured it wasn't Mary Sue-ish after all.
I also kept the name because I like the fact that it haunted her all her life. It's like the whole fairytale hanted her because she thinks her life was so drastically un fairytale-ish when in reality she's living the fairytale and just can't see it. (or se's just in complete denial.)
So yeah, lots of reasons behind the name... one of those things where I being the writer probably saw way too much into it and the readers were just kind of like "huh... cruel parents."
lol anyway, I"m glad that you liked the name and that you think it works with her because I really liked it but I'm always worried (especially when writing romance) that I'm being totally cliche and just don't realize it. I guess being self-conscious of your work is just the curse of every writer, but hearing you guys say that makes me feel a little better, so thanks!
oh, and :-* :-* :-* for all the congratulation s ladies, :-[
MellzBellz:
Congratulation s Kelly! Finally there is a story of the month (besides my own obviously lol) that I've actually completely read, so I can sit back and comment.
Not Your Average Cinderella Story was the second story by Kelly that I read (the first being Welcome to My Heart) and the level of growth between these two stories in her writing is just amazing! WTMH was a nice cute little romance which I enjoyed, but I don't think I ever felt REALLY sucked into it. When I started NYACS at first I didn't think it was the same author! lol The overall tone of it is SOOO different which is awesome if a writer can pull that off. I feel that its in this story where things just seemed to click for Kelly.
I think it was the darker twist on Cinderella that suckered me in. Of course EVERY girls favorite fairytale is Cinderella, but if she'd done a romantic rewrite of it, I think it might not have been as effective or memorable. It was also a GREAT way of suckering me into reading a Howie fan fic (which I don't normally read) because although you knew ONE of the guys was her Prince Charming you didn't necessarily know who it was until you were already so deep into the story you'd continue reading anyway. And Leighanne as a fairy godmother type character was just too perfect. Probably one of my favorite interpretation s of Leighanne in a fan fic ever.
The only thing missing that I would of liked to see (and I told Kelly this lol) is Cindy telling Nick that they actually slept together. Just his reaction would've been priceless in my opinion LOL
But yea if you haven't read it, I highly reccomend it!
mare:
Ah very good answer. and lol at everyone saying huh cruel parents while you put so much thought into it. That's always the way, isn't it?
Another question for you then, you mentioned that you were thinking of making this more Cinderella-ish as in the traditional sense. If that was the case what roles would you have cast for each of the guys?
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