Writing grammatically correct Shakespeare Early Modern English and regular Modern English…hell just writing in general  is a huge pain. Kudos to the historical fiction and fantasy writers and all these historical SexyViolentTudors! type TV series’ screenwriters that soak this Renaissance and grammar stuff up and make legitimate serious fare with such language or that can actually pass as such. I still judge your uses of wyverns and hot elves though.

Thank god I’ve decided this play breaks the fourth wall a lot so the language comes and goes with the quips and characters drop it constantly but craaaap

Everyone is so damn witty. Innuendo everywhere.

Really the dialogue  from deadpan to frothy is developing very quickly and so is the plot, which is nice for a change as conflict has never been my strongest suit, I’d rather just make people laugh. Being given a  framework to work with according to the original folktale helps there, but I’ve already decided there will be some plot flourishes that differ from the original tale. Not so straightforward. I’m very much inspired by Much Ado About Nothing , Taming of The Shrew and by extension Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate for this, and I guess in a way it’s going to be a send up of such Shakespeare “dramedies” or my modern take on it, and if I can make fun of Romeo & Juliet in the process I will.  I haven’t had this much fun writing in a while though, and that’s what is appealing to me the most about it. It’s fun.

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Helen Merrill -Anything Goes