Wish I could have attended – this would have been most inspiring.
Kate Forsyth, Danielle Wood, Garth Nix & Wanda Wiltshire
I only went to one session today, but what a session! Myths, Fairy Tales and the Need to Believe with Danielle Wood, Garth Nix, and Wanda Wiltshire, chaired by Kate Forsyth. The panel aimed to address the question: Can fairy tales provide a cure for modern cynicism?
The writers began by talking a little bit about where the stories begin, with Wanda relating a wonderful tale of reaching the age of 40, still unsure what she was going to do with her life, and praying before bed one night that a story would come to her, only to wake with a 6-story series fully formed in her mind, complete with character names! Garth said that he never remembered his dreams, but was partial to the fugue state when one is half-asleep and said he once got an entire story—about toothache, no…
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