How to be a better fairy tale author
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been a little bit of a fairy tale writer.As a kid, I was so obsessed with my mom’s fairy tale collection that I read every single one of them.And as a teen, I read the entire first volume of The Little Mermaid every single time I went […]
Why Czech fairy tales are so much better than English translations
By CECILI GUTIERREZ-LOPEZ and LISA CASSONERUSBERG/AFP via Getty ImagesWhen the word fairy tale is translated into Czech, it’s usually the same thing as when the author wrote it.That’s because the Czech language has a rich literary tradition, including dozens of fairy tales that were created by writers who never achieved fame.In fact, the last Czech […]
How to make Christmas Fairy Tales
The Christmas story is the most widely read story of all time, and is one of the oldest stories ever written.The first Christmas story, written by an unknown author in the 14th century, was written in 1512.It tells the story of a man and his two children and the man’s wife, whom he finds wandering […]
