A "Princess Dancer" movie

[deborahjross]

I am absolutely blown away by the creativity of the folks at Book View Cafe. In today's blog, Sue Lange writes about making a movie based on her story, "Princess Dancer."

But then, I don’t write fairy tales either, so all bets are off and all rules broken in this saga. Before I sat down to write Princess Dancer, I first read the primary source: Grimms’ Twelve Dancing Princesses. And to make it dark like Phyllis and Deborah wanted, I read to a soundtrack: The Burned. And then, and then, as the music continued in the background, I wrote the first rough draft, historically the most difficult of passages. The words flowed like butter in summer.

In the first moments of self-congratulations for completing the draft, a hideous idea to me. “This would make a great trailer for the book,” I thought to myself. I didn’t dare say it aloud because you know what happens when you do that. What I did say aloud was: “No. You’re a writer, not a filmmaker.” And so the idea was thankfully put to rest. But a vision of the black light tattoos and stained glass ballroom stayed with me, niggling at the back of my head like a tick.

Stay tuned for more. Meanwhile, you can get the anthology, with many other superb and twisted tales here.