There has been an idea I have been toying around for a few weeks now--inspired by a fic I read on here by a wonderful soul whose name I honestly cannot remember! (sorry!)

The concept is that the reason the Prince is wandering around town relying on a stupid shoe to find his lifemate is because he has amnesia and really has nothing else to go by.

And that's all I really have.

I don't have any actual plotline ideas, but I do have a speck of advice: pick one element of the story and go just go nuts on it. Focus on something like the shoe, or how she's supposed to leave by midnight or something and come up a story surrounding it.

In a traditional Cinderella story (not talking about the "True Story" retelling in which Cinderella is evil), Cinderella will always be good, and Stepmother will always be evil.

But there are different ways in which the Stepsisters are potrayed. Some people write them as both being evil, others make one evil, and one good. Others write both of them evil in the beginning, and one of them turning good in the end. Have one be good from beginning to end, and have the other one be evil but turn good in the end, and so on and so on, you get the idea.

The way I prefer is have them be similar but different when it comes to there attitude towards Cinderella. A Stepsister that is really nice, but after Cindy's father dies, is encourage or sometimes forced to be mean to Cinderella by her mother, while the other one was always mean, but was mean to everybody and treated Cinderella the same as everyone else rotten, but her mother encourage her to focus all her meanness on Cinderella. Two sisters coached to be mean to Cinderella, but from different prospective. Irony.

One idea I have, is for one Stepsister to over hear Cinderella's friends talking about their plans, and for her to at first planning to foil their plans, but to be confronted by one of them, for that person to ask, how she could condom the way her mother treats Cinderella, why do they treat Cinderella so badly? For the Stepsister and Cinderella's to have a long arguement, but during that convo she starts to reflect. For that Stepsister to turn good, and fall in love with one of Cinderella's pauper friends.

Anyway what I am saying I like for the Stepsisters to have minds of their own, have their own motives, instead of blindly following their mother. Doesn't mean they have to be nice, if you want to be mean be mean, but do it because you want to, not because your mother is mean and your blindly following her lead. Be your own person.

I like your protrayl of your Stepsister, I probably would do it the same way. Have them be gray characters. Cinderella is good, Stepmother is evil, and the Stepsisters are in the middle somewhere.

I think you get the idea.

The characters I would add is the boyfriend of the meaner more snobby stepsister. This character only interested in the stepsister for her family's wealth. His family is already wealth, but he is a greedy person. He is attracted to Cinderella, and hits on her when no one else is around, and does things that in our society is considered harassment. He is a person that is attracted to the lower class girls, because in his mind, they know how to satisfy someone better than a upper class girl, if you know what I mean. (he stereotypes people) His perfect situtation would be to marry someone rich, but have affairs with the servants and other lower class girls. In our society, he would probably see a few postitues.

This character would also give the story a male villain, and a villain for the Prince.

The way I would do it, is for this character to be a rival, nemisis for the Prince. And at some point for there to be a fight between this character and the Prince, and ultimately the Prince would knock him out, and warn him to never go near Cinderella again.

As for what happens between him and the stepsister, I don't know depending what direction I want the stepsister character to go. They are two ways I would go about it. Either she never finds out, and she and this characters stay together, because they deserve each other. Or the other stepsister (who from the beginning is never a enemy of Cinderella, is either a neutral character who later becomes friends with Cinderella, or a allie of Cinderella from the beginning) finds out his actions when alone with Cinderella, and towards the end the less mean stepsister tells the more mean stepsister what happened, and she dumps him.

But that is what I would do, I love my Cinderella with a little back stabbing, and fighting, and maybe even a redemption, we all have our own ways to tells these stories.

Plus, I cannot resist the idea of at least one quirky stepsister, who is not mean, just extremely annoying. Also, the whole "love at first sight" thing never made much sense to me. How can one decide on the spot of seeing a person that that is one's soul mate? It's not very well thought out, and would probably not end happily. Having a relationship in my stories between the love interests is a must-have.

Here's something I've had in the works for a while. Fairy godmother is in serious infatuation with prince. The two have been close since the fairy, really a lady of the court, was introduced to the palace. One day he "falls in love" with this blonde chick he sees in town, and he's off on the roller coaster of WUV. So, the lady accepts this. She has to find something to do to help him, since she only wants what is best for him. (Very practical.) She decides to anonymously help the young girl out, and pave her way to the prince. But she realizes her feelings go far deeper than she thought, and eventually...Well, Cindy's carriage wheel may be a tad loose.

Romantic comedies. Gotta love 'em.

I agree with snowish, I would love to do a story in which Cinderella is the heroine, there is no Prince or Fairy to rescue her. She does it on her own, with a little assitance from non magical friends, but in the end, the person that takes the lead credit for Cinderella's better life, is Cinderella herself.

Here is my idea for what I guess you can call for now "Cinderella 2: The Next Generation", some insperation from Romeo and Juliet but with the light heartness of a fairy tale. Here is the story.

(Genders of the main kids aren't decided yet, but they are of opposite gender) The Prince and Cinderella are now king and queen. As Queen Cinderella has used her power to pay back her stepfamily for their cruealty, and relly makes life tough for them.

Cinderella have two kids, the oldest of the kid is very rebellious like his or her father, and wants to know more about the commoners. The oldest child meets and befriends a pesient, slowly but surely it soon turns to romance. The prince or princess believes his or her parents would ever approve. Eventully the King and Queen finds out, and Cinderella is furious, but not for the reason the older king thinks. It is because the peasent is the son of daughter of one of Cinderella's stepsisters. And she does not want her offspring to associate with that family.

I read a very well-written story with a cindarella retelling modern, called "Hello Goodbye". It's a few years old but I liked the story, although it was long and sometimes the descriptions were longer. Still, I like the idea of a modern Cinderella.

I was thinking of a modern retelling plot a few months ago, but it was with a bunch of different fairy tales intertwined and set in Las Vegas. The Cinerella plot starts out that her father owned a hotel/casino that did moderately well off the strip and when he died, her stepmother took over ownership and made the Cinderella character a maid in the hotel. The 'fairy godmother' would be the lady who owns a fancy shoe store in the hotel shops that Cinderella looks to for advice. Otherwise Cinderella uses her money to gamble on slot machines and buy martinis, and she's not necessarily unhappy but thinks her family is a bunch of **. 'The prince' would be a well-known successful hotel/casino owner that is a bachelor and sought after by a lot of the ladies. So to spite her family, Cinderella character shows up at his hotel's charity ball-he has no idea who she is since she hardly makes appearances with her step-family, and he becomes totally enchanted by her lack of interest in him--hell she's there for the free alcohol and food. So then he spends the rest of the time trying to figure out who she is because she leaves one of the 'fairy godmother's' boutique shoes at the ball. He traces it back to the step-mother's hotel but still has to narrow it down--yeah.

The intertwining comes from the fact the Cinderella character is friends with a snow white character and they get together once every week and complain about their bitchy step-mothers over martinis. The 'Prince charming' character co-owns his hotel/casino with his younger brother who is the one that takes an interest in the Snow white character when he spots her in a coffee shop or something.

Then, a girl based off of little red riding hood is left with the task of delivering drugs to the otherside of the strip all the while a cop nicknamed the 'wolf' is following her to bust her.

LOL, just plot bunnies that hop across my mind.

I read a very well-written story with a cindarella retelling modern, called "Hello Goodbye". It's a few years old but I liked the story, although it was long and sometimes the descriptions were longer. Still, I like the idea of a modern Cinderella.

I was thinking of a modern retelling plot a few months ago, but it was with a bunch of different fairy tales intertwined and set in Las Vegas. The Cinerella plot starts out that her father owned a hotel/casino that did moderately well off the strip and when he died, her stepmother took over ownership and made the Cinderella character a maid in the hotel. The 'fairy godmother' would be the lady who owns a fancy shoe store in the hotel shops that Cinderella looks to for advice. Otherwise Cinderella uses her money to gamble on slot machines and buy martinis, and she's not necessarily unhappy but thinks her family is a bunch of **. 'The prince' would be a well-known successful hotel/casino owner that is a bachelor and sought after by a lot of the ladies. So to spite her family, Cinderella character shows up at his hotel's charity ball-he has no idea who she is since she hardly makes appearances with her step-family, and he becomes totally enchanted by her lack of interest in him--hell she's there for the free alcohol and food. So then he spends the rest of the time trying to figure out who she is because she leaves one of the 'fairy godmother's' boutique shoes at the ball. He traces it back to the step-mother's hotel but still has to narrow it down--yeah.

The intertwining comes from the fact the Cinderella character is friends with a snow white character and they get together once every week and complain about their bitchy step-mothers over martinis. The 'Prince charming' character co-owns his hotel/casino with his younger brother who is the one that takes an interest in the Snow white character when he spots her in a coffee shop or something.

Then, a girl based off of little red riding hood is left with the task of delivering drugs to the otherside of the strip all the while a cop nicknamed the 'wolf' is following her to bust her.

LOL, just plot bunnies that hop across my mind.

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