Christine Smith

The Five Keys to Telling a Great Story According to Tangled

Post published:May 20, 2019
Post category:Writing
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Over on Fairy Tale Central, my other blog I co-author with Arielle and Faith, we’ve been featuring the story of Rapunzel for all the month of May. And, naturally, when one thinks Rapunzel, they’re minds probably jump straight to TANGLED. I adore the original fairy tale of the girl with impossibly long hair stuck in a tower. The concept is rather fascinating, with such great story fodder. But my absolute favorite adaptation is most definitely Tangled. Actually, my favorite animated movie of all time is Tangled. Which is saying something, ‘cause I like a lot of animated movies. BUT GUYS.…

Avengers: Endgame Review [SPOILERS]

Post published:May 13, 2019
Post category:Fangirling
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So I saw Endgame. Yep. *ETERNAL SHRIEKING* Annnd that’s basically the extent of my thoughts. Juuuust kidding. I have thoughts. SO. MANY. THOUGHTS. I wasn’t originally planning to even do a review. Have I ever done a movie review here??? I don’t think I have. I usually stick to book reviews. And everyone and their pet tree has done an Endgame review. Do we really need another one? But. WELL. I’ve been faithfully following the MCU for a decade now. That’s a long time. It didn’t seem right to let this big finale of the MCU as we know it…

At Your Service – A Flash Fiction Piece Published at Havok

Post published:May 8, 2019
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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I had a flash fiction piece that would be featured on GoHavok.com. Well. THE DAY HAS ARRIVED! If you like disastrous (semi-magical) dinner parties, then you can head on over to Havok and read my piece! CHECK IT OUT HERE! It will only be available to read TODAY (May 8th) though, unless you’re a Havok member. Also, it’s a little funky over there with the comments. If you’re not a member and try to comment, it’ll act like you can’t. But you CAN. All comments will go through. It just looks like it…

Seven Story Elements I Love to Write

Post published:May 6, 2019
Post category:Writing
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I think every writer, no matter how many books they produce, have certain story elements they return to again and again. It’s like a fingerprint we leave in our stories, or a promise to our readers that they will always find these things within our tales. And it’s for ourselves as well. We write because we love it. That is the core of why we do this crazy story-making thing. And there’s just some things we love too much to only write about in one story. On twitter there was a tag going around asking “How you know I wrote…

Deal or No Deal {A Rumpelstiltskin Short Story}

Post published:April 29, 2019
Post category:Prompts Writing
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As part of Fairy Tale Central, Arielle, Faith, and I thought it’d be super fun to share a writing prompt each month that goes along with that month’s featured fairy tale. We can then take the prompt and write a piece based off of it on our personal blogs AND have YOU GUYS do the same if you want. That way we can share ALL the fairy tale love! It’s just so, sooo much fun reimaging fairy tales. And this is a great, quick way to play around with all the many possibilities. If you missed it (thought probably not…

The Marvel Cinematic Universe Tag

Post published:April 22, 2019
Post category:Fangirling
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GUYS. Avengers: Endgame comes out THIS. WEEK. I can’t believe how close we are. I don’t think I’m readyyyyy. *flails* Since “we’re in the endgame now” (lololol sorry, couldn’t help myself), I’ve decided to create a Marvel tag! I’M EXCITED. I wanted to do something Marvel-y today, and I thought why not make a tag where we can all flail in the Marvel goodness? Dis gonne be fun! GUIDELINES (‘Cause who needs “rules”?) Feel free to include the above graphic somewhere in your post (but it’s definitely not necessary). Take the questions and answer them on your blog (or…

{Linkup} The Language of Worlds: Anya

Post published:April 15, 2019
Post category:Writing
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It’s time for another Language of Worlds! *happy dance* You know I jump at any chance to write a post about my story characters. It’s just way too fun! If you have nooo clue what this is, it’s a writer’s linkup created by the fabulous Liv. K. Fisher, in which she gives us 10 questions every couple of months to answer for any one of our original characters. You can find this newest edition HERE. So life has been, erm, something lately. Alllll of March was spent switching/redesigning my blog to a self-hosted site, as well as working on Fairy…

The Plot Holes of Rumpelstiltskin: Finding Story Inspiration Within Fairy Tales

Post published:April 8, 2019
Post category:Writing
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As you all probably know (since I’ve been screaming about it endlessly now) Fairy Tale Central went live last week! And we’ve had such an abundance of enthusiasm. We are DELIGHTED at the overwhelming response we’ve received. It’s been the most amaaaazing week interacting with you guys and sharing our first posts. GAH. I’M SO EXCITED. Each month over there we’re focusing on one specific fairy tale. If you’ve visited the site, then you know for our first month we chose Rumpelstiltskin. Yes, that story of a strange little man who can unexplainably spin straw into gold has been such…

Introducing Fairy Tale Central

Post published:April 1, 2019
Post category:Fangirling
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THE DAY HAS ARRIVED AND I CAN’T STOP SCREAMING ABOUT IT. Fairy Tale Central is HERE!!! I’ve been flailing on social media about this fairy tale site for over a month, and have been feverishly working with my amazing co-creators for many months, and it is finally TIME. That’s right. IT’S LAUNCH DAY. (Seriously, I can’t stop screaming.) I have some super fun things to share here, but I’m too excited and just HAVE to go ahead and give you the link. Are you ready for it? THE SITE Introducing… FAIRY TALE CENTRALhttps://thefairytalecentral.com/ EEP. I’M JUST SO EXCITED!!! Each…

Welcome to My New Blog

Post published:March 30, 2019
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Hello, my elflings! IT HAS FINALLY HAPPENED. Welcome to the new Musings of an Elf! (Even though it’s no longer called that, but details.) The wait is over and it is HEEERE. I’m a little excited, if you can’t tell. I’m kind of in love with my new space, if I’m being honest. It’s so much cleaner and better put together than ol’ Musings of an Elf (at least I hope so?). Don’t get me wrong, I LOVED my old blog, and will forever be fond of it, but it’s nice to be on a more professional platform. STILL. I can…