Fractured Fairy Tales
When you choose the fairy tale, plan the plot of the story and answer the following questions:
* What is the setting of the traditional story? What is the setting of our fractured fairy tale?
* Are we going to change the point of view of the original story?
* How will we change the characters in our fractured fairy tale?
* What is the problem in our story? What is the solution?
* How can we make our story funny?
Remember, there are a lot of ways to fracture a fairy tale!
* Change the main character
* Change the setting (time or place)
* Tell the story from a different character's point of view
* Make the problem of the story different
* Change an important item in the story (for example, the glass slipper in Cinderella)
* Change the ending of the story (maybe they don't live "happily ever after" after all!)