Literary event response;Big Ideas: Fairy Tales” (fiction) Fairy Tales were meant to function as a moral compass.

write a 1-3 page response discussing the writer’s work and how it reflects and/or complicates issues about fiction writing, and whether or not the event changed how you approach your own writing. Here’s what you should write about:Big Ideas: Fairy Tales” (fiction) Fairy Tales were meant to function as a moral compass. Archetypes and stereotypes abound, and the stories are often terrifying, traumatizing, and worse. Daniel Ortberg’s latest The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror leans into the darkness and asks: what happens when you give a classic tale a contemporary makeover? In this collection, Ortberg subverts tales like A Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and Beauty and the Beast, to ask more meaningful questions and re-calibrate the compass.