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Applying Archetypes: Part 2

9/24/2020

 
Last month I did the first part of this post, which explained why I compared my books to certain Disney Princess movies. It wasn’t a final definition so much as a first step towards outlining some basic identity for the books. The first step of many, I hope! These are really tiny ideas, but that’s how babies learn to walk—they are small and they start moving. There are so many books I broke the post into 2 parts. Here’s the first post if you missed it. This one continues with the next five books:
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  • The Test of Devotion is a really action-packed story that emphasizes the adventure over drama or comedy, which gives it a distinctive character among my books. So what’s similar about Mulan is it has the main character going off to war, which is very gritty and exciting and provides lots of action.
  • Bellevere House runs along on its own thing among my works because it was designed to fit into a multi-author series concept. It uses the early 20th-century as a backdrop. Anastasia was originally made by a different studio from the other princess movies, so its idiosyncrasy suits it to this book, and it is set in the vintage era as well.
  • A Year with the Harrisons, like Sleeping Beauty, is based on relationships that are all set up before the story starts. Older people influence the young people quite a bit and help to dictate what happens, similar to how the actions of royal parents, the three fairies, and Maleficent determine the situations in which Aurora finds herself.
  • Ryan and Essie is about antagonism between worlds and between people who are different from each other and it’s about valuing everyone’s life and destiny. These themes appear in Pocahontas too and also Pocahontas herself is a spiritual and idealistic person.
  • This Merry Summertime is a light-hearted book. It’s just really comedy and doesn’t have a lot of serious things in it. Family relationships are central to it, but they are shown in a youthful way. Brave, obviously, has a spunky tone and a bit of lack of seriousness and it’s one of the more juvenile princess movies.

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    I write stories about human emotions--about the journey of life. Every step of it can be meaningfully great or simply terrible and you can only reach the end after experiencing many kinds of things that make you grow. Emotional travels are the travels of life and the road of living is not one planned out in notebooks or organized in Scrivener. It is felt in love, hope, and fear and developed through an understanding of why humans go through these. And, on top of that, my stories are adventure stories. History, fantasy, and daily modern situations are all adventures as long as you don't know for sure what's going to happen when you wake up each day. Because that would be like repeating the same day over and over again and who wants to do that?

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