ChaBooCha Day 18

I started reading Rags and Bones … I love the premise behind the anthology; that the writers involved have taken some of our most beloved tales and have boiled them down to the bones, to reassemble them for a new audience, and from a new perspective. We all retell our favs for our own reasons, often to take that marrow, that substance and shape it into something that will sit better with us, or reflect our current way of life, etc. Each of us choses what to keep, what to throw out, and what we want our readers to take away from the story. A moral that worked well 100 years ago isn’t necessarily as palatable for our current tastes. And what we write today may not sit well with a new audience, 100 years into the future. Sometimes there is not moral – it is what it has always been; entertainment for a frosty night. In many respects, no matter what our background, all of us that are giving a new spin to the old favs are connected through our love of these stories. It doesn’t matter if this is our first writing project or if we are a bestselling author … we all are dipping our toes into the same story pool.