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@Nyhterides Hi! That's awesome! My novel Labyrinth is a retelling of the nursery rhyme of Jack and Jill. At that time, I thought why not? Cause if Classics can be retold, why not nursery rhymes? LOL! It is said though that Jack and Jill is the real story behind the fall of Prince Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette's ruling and the pail of [poisoned] water is a symbol of the written treaty [misfortune]. At that time, I learned of the other rhymes too ... like Humpty Dumpty is really a cannon ball ... when it was shot ... that's the reason it couldn't be put back together again! Of course,  as kids, we don't need to know that. I also want to do one on the hunchback of Notre Dame. To me, that fairy tale didn't really end on a happy note. Sure for the girl, but not for the hunchback, guess because he's disfigured and during those times, the disabled weren't hardly regarded. Imagine what Pia can do ... LOL! I guess I'm more of the writer who wants to take on subjects that aren't often looked upon. And as the poet, George Bernard Shaw once said, " I dream of things and ask ... Why not?" LOL!

@Glory_feeling2 I enjoy retellings!! Did you know Rosalind is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast? I hope you get to write yours :)

@Nyhterides Hehehe... you read my mind my friend cause if I ever get back to my WIP on the retelling of classics ... I love to do a Cinderella story on what if it was the complete opposite. Yet in a different format. Cinder was a guy, he had step brothers who'd bully him. His mother married a man who despised him and it was a princess not a prince who fell in love with him. But like all my stories did they live happily ever after? I think NOT! LOL 
            
            I'll put Angel in my library.

@WendyyWolfe oh my gosh, I've been thinking about you these days. I'm ok. Busy, tired, had a lot of stuff going on. How have you been?

@Nyhterides yesss!! I'm waiting for you to finish it hehehe 

@DreamingAboutCats I need to finish it. It's a few thousand words from being done...and we need to know who the stranger is, right? I'll find you on Insta though I don't use it much.

@Glory_feeling2 I have Insta but rarely use it. I pretty much opened an account so I can follow my nieces.I used to use Twitter a lot but I stopped a few years ago. I will add you though! I saved a lot of my chats, too. I had a lot of things I wanted to save.

@Nyhterides Congratulations on making it on Round 2. Sometimes personal events happen in our lives that we can't prevent and forces us to put things down for a minute to take care of what is more important: ourselves and family. Be glad that you did The Rapunzels my friend. That's well accomplished. You can come back to it when you can! I'll also read it after all the other tasks I promised to do! Take Care!

@Nyhterides congrats, friend! Sometimes you have to experience the pain to find the joy in your life. Praying for you.

@Nyhterides Congratulations! ❤

@Nyhterides So that 'Simo ne' LOL. Thought it was a relative. *dmiles* I don't like autocorrect either as it does make errors, let alone that now we have to deal with AI.

@Nyhterides Sending you lots of tightest hugs, my friend ❤❤ Hope you get the peace you so profoundly deserve :) 

@Nyhterides Big hugs to you my friend. Hope life gives you a bit of a break so you can get some rest.
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@Nacht_Owl Thankfully Troy and Calla's age was easy to fix, although I was a bit sad as I wanted Ros to be older than him, but I didn't bother changing. Now they are both 18. But in a piece written in the 1800s, people got married young, anyway, now Calla became a bride at 18. It's safe now! Anyhoo... Oh yah, some classic would have been in trouble!

@Glory_feeling2 I understand there need to be rules, and I agree boundaries should be set. But they had made the age of consent 16 (which is age of consent in many, many places all over the world). Suddenly, a lot of us need to panic edit works that have thousands of reads for fear of them being taken down. It's just worrying... I don't write anything graphic, but there are a few scenes that are a bit, er, not super innocent. I know of Lolita. She was 14, he was like...40. Ok, that's different! Romeo and Juliet were 13 and 14 if I recall correctly. If Shakespeare was on WP, that classic would have been banned.

@Nyhterides What a bloody nuisance for all the authors. No you have writers having to change their character ages and some are even removing books out of protest or fear that WP will do it for them.
            Such a bother for you all. 
            Horrifyingly the official age of consent in my country is 16. 
            This is a bit of a farce in a way as it is not realistic for the world we live in. And I do love the irony of some of the classic books not meeting WP guidelines *rolls eyes*
            Wishing you all luck with the editing.