A Blog on Shakespeared:or Wally and the Fairy Queen
Its always shaky when you’re dealing with
a classic like Shakespeare- but the spirit of the Bard can help as well, giving
license to a joyful tale that can be—well a little whacky- and still touching
at the same time. That’s this one…
Some stories are hard work to write.
Some stories need to be built from the
plot elements and beats and carefully constructed, contrived and calculated to
hit specific highs and lows to manipulate the reader and make him/her jump
through hoops.
Shakespeared was one of those stories.
This book wrote itself, or more properly
once I knew who Wally Chambers, the main character, was.
We’ve all known Wally, an ernest, hard
working nice guy whose just never gotten ‘the break.’ He gets as Bottom
opposite his dream girl, Audrey Flax as Titania. He just can’t find a way to
let know how he really feels for fear of being seen as one of the legion of men
who lust after her.
Then, of course when the real Puck end up
in the Production of Midsummer Night’s Dream things get weird.
Like I said, this one wrote itself.
I often found myself smiling or laughing
ore even a bit choked up when a scene had I hadn’t planned suddenly happened.
Works by Teel James Glenn: The Dr. Shadows Series, The Skullmask Series, The Maxi/Moxie series from BooksforaBuck.com. The Devil Wore Greasepaint,The Escape Artist, The Exceptionals Series & the Dr. Argent series from Whiskeycreekpress.com, Of Swords and Sorcery, Hymn to the Battlecrow, The Secret of Wolf Island, Love Gods & Labyrinths from Gypsyshadow.com, The Horsed Thief, The Traveler's Tale & Wake of the Red Mistress, Shakespeared from Eternal Press.
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