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I have very frequently tried to write stories, and, about as frequently, never finished them. But my writing style isn’t very good because I attempt the style of any book I have been reading but with little success. For one thing, in the past I have usually changed styles several times before the book was over and I think that a book should be written in the same style throughout. And what is about the only writing style I can claim much experience at? RAMBLING!!! So now, here is my question. How would a story sound in rambling style? Let me try an experiment.

Once Upon a Time(Fairy tales usually begin that way, and did you know that there are two spellings of Fairy? Fairy(of course) and Faerie. I prefer Fairy because it is shorter to type.) There was a beautiful princess(in stories they usually are), with hair as lovely as bright gold shining in the sun and eyes as blue as the sky(amazing how many people get away with just “Beautiful Princess” without your knowing what color their hair and eyes are.)

Now on the princess’s sixteenth birthday(she doesn’t prick her finger on a spinning wheel in this story but something else unpleasant will happen…) she received many beautiful presents; however, she received some less lovely ones. For instance the one she received from her Uncle, who was very serious and grouchy and always telling her that life is very serious, gave her a huge book titled “The Seriousness of Life”(he was very creative with his titles…) that he had written himself and told her to read all of it. She smiled but didn’t say that she would and looked at her next present in rapture. It was a beautiful sapphire and diamond jewelry set from her parents(Sapphire was her birthstone(it’s mine too)). There was a tiara, a necklace, a bracelet, but no ring. However she didn’t care about the lack of the ring and the fact that it might have been stolen never occurred to her because she thought that there wasn’t one, which was a very logical thought since one hadn’t been given to her and there really wasn’t one. Of course she put the jewelry on right away, and very lovely she looked in it, too. Fortunately she was wearing a blue dress that was just the shade of the jewels.

She opened the rest of her presents, none where worse than “The Seriousness of Life” and none were better than jewels her parents had given her(Though she did get some lovely presents, among them an adorable white kitten that she liked almost as much as the jewels, if not more, until it scratched her. Then it was taken away to be de-clawed and the Countess who gave it to her apologized for not having it done all ready.)

But it is time for the unpleasant event to happen, and fortunately the kitten wasn’t there when it happened, as it might have been mistaken for a giant marshmallow and roasted, then consumed by the dragon that showed up. Since I gave a description to the princess, I shall give a description of the dragon(I’ll also give a description of the hero, if and when he shows up…) She(a female dragon, since in my house the males outnumber the females, in this story the females mentioned shall outnumber the males mentioned.) was at least twelve feet tall at the shoulders and nine feet higher if her head was raised(long necks are fashionable for dragons.., And this was a very fashionable dragon.) Her coloring was pink and purple polka-dots(Daniel and John(two of my brothers) used to think that pink and purple polka-dots where the most awful color in the world so since this dragon must be the most awful color in the world, I have chosen that one.). Now this dragon was very found of jewels, gold, and etc(as dragons are, you can refer to the Hobbit if you need confirmation of this.) And since I have told you that the lovely princess’s hair(I just realized I hadn’t given her name, With great creativity I shall name her Lovelinia, changing the “y” to “i” and adding “nia” as the old spelling rule goes.) was the color of gold, and since the dragon was rather nearsighted, she mistook the princess for a sapphire, diamond, and gold statue that had been sculpted with a look of extreme horror on its face.

The dragon was so pleased at finding this bit of statuary that she immediately picked it up and flew back to her home, which was far away in the Mountains of Dragonac(Dragonac is sufficiently like Dragon to explain the reason why those mountains were named that.) and there the unfortunate princess was set on a pillar in the treasure room to look nice(If one does look nice with an expression of extreme terror on your face). But she did her best, and fortunately she wasn’t to stay there long because since I have been writing for over an hour I think I am going to end this story very soon.

Any way Princess Lovelinia was reflecting on the seriousness of life(her uncle would have been very proud of her) when outside the dank cavern there was a shout!!! And of course the Hero walks in. It was obvious at first glance that he was a knight in shinning armor(Though at the moment it wasn’t shinning because it is very dusty and dirty in the Mountains of Dragonac) He looked at the ugliness of the pink and purple polka-doted dragon and the beauty of the princess(the expression of extreme terror had left her face when he walked in)(Of course if he had been a dragon he would have thought the princess ugly and the Dragon lovely and very fashionable since she had a very long neck and pink and purple polka-dots were fashionable just then.) The dragon did not like visitors of this sort so she greeted him with burst of flame(Which is usually the case in the mountains of Dragonac) and the knight, who considered that enough of a challenge, rode to battle!

Of course he defeated the dragon and the pink and purple polka-dotted menace fell to the ground dead. The knight helped the princess off the pillar, then took off his helmet and introduced himself. His name was Prince Julius and he had black hair that looked like the sky at midnight, and eyes that looked like green emeralds. Despite his green eyes Lovelinia thought him very handsome(she probably would have thought anybody handsome who rescued her from that dragon.) And of course, since she was a very beautiful princess, he fell in love with her right there on the spot. So he proposed and she said “yes”(it was the least she thought that she could after he saved her from being a statue of extreme horror all of her life.) and they rode back to Lovelinia’s parents and were married. So Princess Lovelinia got to eat two cakes that day, her birthday cake and her wedding cake and everybody had to go and get her wedding presents and although they weren’t as nice as her birthday presents, they were well meant.

From her Uncle she received a very practical book entitled “Worst Case Survival Guide for Dragons”. Unfortunately he had forgotten to look inside it and instead of a book about what to do if you are caught by dragons, it was a book written for dragons and included the best way to take down a knight, how to keep your hoard from rusting, how to get rid of unwanted neighbors(have them for dinner) etc. After looking through it she made her husband promise to not go hunting dragons, and he did promise that he wouldn’t after reading the chapter on how to properly barbecue knights. So they lived happily ever after(which is the usual end to fairy tales. However, I am going to include a moral which is not as common.)

MORAL: Don’t judge a book by its cover.

There that was about an hour and a half to write but I think it will be worth it. and I also think that the rambling style may be very interesting for fairy tales. Because if it wasn’t for the rambling style the story would have been like this “Once upon a time there was a princess. She was kidnapped by a dragon. The dragon was killed by a prince who married the princess and they all lived happily ever after, except the dragon.” Now that is a little bit boring if you ask me.