February/March 2014 Lite Challenge: Story Mapping a Fairytale

[madcowchef]

OK I'll throw my hat in the ring on this one. I'm going to take it in a different direction than the others I've seen so far. I'm going to map out a fairy tale like a story map, showing the order the elements of the story occur in, and setting a story or two on my map. Trust me it will make sense when you see it. First thing is to make a list of common fairy tale elements. This is what I have so far:

Fair maiden, Princess, Queens, Kings, Princes, Fool, Three Brothers

Talking Animals, Old Couple, Fairy god mothers,

Witch, Evil Step family, Giants, Trolls

Home, Castles, Balls,Disguises, Magic Food

Cruel Labor, Curse, Happily Ever After, Treasure, Lost, Fitting End, Fitting Punishment, Lies, Attempted Murder, Dead Suitors

[Jalyha]

oh yaayyyy I think that will be fun to watch ^.^

Here, have a random image I have from... somewhere? in my computer.

story arch.png

Prolly won't help, but seemed vaguely related...

[seredemia]

This looks interesting! Looking forward to see how you pull this off. I also really like that dead suitors part...

[Domino44]

sounds like a really interesting idea!

[madcowchef]

Crude Start. Need to make my land form and then go back and begin detailing increasingly smaller areas. Aslo I hope no one looks at the lands of evil folk and says "hey look I can see my house from here".

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Ex9FairyV-1.jpg

[seredemia]

*Looks at land of bad folk*

HEY LOOK. I CAN SEE MY HOUSE FROM HERE.

......Hehe. Sorry. Couldn't help it. Anyway, I like the layout of this so far. The names you chose should make this map fun to look at. And... is that food?? Did you add food to the map??? 8D

[Jalyha]

Ahhhh I see what you're doing ^.^

Awesome idea!

[madcowchef]

I think I have enough to start the actual terrain from here and add labels as I go and they occur to me. Some areas certainly need some more ideas to fill them out more completely.

### Latest WIP ###
Ex9FairyV1.jpg

[Domino44]

I love the land shape, and it's such a cool idea...

[Bogie]

This will be fun to watch