Absorbed in writing my version of Beauty and the Beast, I have lots of frustration, doubt, uncertainty, questions...in short, I'm worried that others might be better equipped to write this story. Do I know the story? Do I know Thailand? Do I know how to write?
That's a quandary; I'm not sure of any of it. I'm having a little fun with it, although I found, when I went back after a break, that very little had been saved successfully. It seems I'd been writing and writing, yet it wasn't anywhere on my old computer. Had I failed to click on Save every night? I'm a lot more careful now.
But it was a lot easier to just change a few things at the beginning, and start again on the story. The people who are in on this project with me tend toward all kinds of different angles - hard-core romance, which always leads to the sex scene (same-sex, reverse harem or whatever), and to them this gives them a challenge to put an old story into a modern romance format, mixing in ancient legends from whhatever country they chose. I chose Thailand because of my desire to work in the story of Tiger Temple, a place in western Thailand with a drama associated with it. But my style is clearly different from theirs. I will even have trouble making it a romance at all, let alone a steamy modern one.
Of course Beauty and the Beast IS a romance and I will be true to that. My main character is in love with a tiger but at the same time always questioning what is real and whether magic can exist in this world. Can it? I the author am a little cynical. He's a tiger! She's not going to have sex. with him.
And can or will thhe tiger become human, if he finds love? Good question. Let me finish and I'll show you the story.
