Hello Dear Reader or Fabulist!
My name is Charles and I like to write fables. You can read some of my fables at Korovia.com, under the topic Korovian Fables. It is something I do for fun. I also write fantasy books, poetry books, and someday perhaps a book of fables.
As part of my practice of writing fables, I also like researching fables and placing them here - a library of fables.
I find it is useful to learn about the history of writing fables, what other famous fabulists wrote about, and the rather unique spin that fabulists put into their work, often turning political commentary into allegories.
One such fabulist that you have probably already read previously (or heard some of his stories) is Jean de La Fontaine. More than likely you have already read or heard his work before without knowing who the author was. Some of Fontaine's work is derived from earlier fabulists, and other fabulists have also derived their work from Fontaine's. Fabulists it seems like to pastiche one another's work quite often.
Myself, I like to avoid accidentally copying the work of others, so to me, studying the work of other fabulists is way of preventing myself from accidentally copying their work, but at the same time learning how other fabulists created their stories in their own unusual way.
After I have exhausted all of Jean de La Fontaine's fables I will choose a different fabulist and begin posting their work.
For the month of May 2018 I am only posting 1 new fable every 5 days. Just to get it started.
However, my long term goal with "Classic Fables of the World" is to post 1 new fable every 3 days, plus a bonus fable on the 1st day of every month. So there should be 11 fables per month, with the exception of February which will have only 10 fables. I will do this by scheduling the posts 3 days apart ahead of time.
So for example today I scheduled 3 more fables for May (spread 5 days apart), 11 fables for June, and another 7 fables for July. Sometime in the next month or two I will hopefully schedule another 20 or more fables for July and August, etc. If I remember to keep adding to this, eventually a whole year of fables should be scheduled in advance.
What am I hoping you the reader will do?
Subscribe! Come to this Library of Classic Fables from time to time and read the new fables as they appear every 3 days.
My goal is to eventually have a giant library of fables for people to read. Hundreds of them. At a rate of 131 fables per year we could potentially post 1,000 fables in less than 8 years.
Want to help?
If you love fables like I do, I could always use some help. Email charlesmoffat@charlesmoffat.com and let me know you are interested in joining "Classic Fables of the World", and perhaps we can post even more than that. It would be awesome to get up to 1 fable every 2 days, or even 1 fable per day.
I don't know how much time I will have to devote to this new blog, but I am hoping I will make an effort. I am hoping other people will enjoy what I am doing and possibly want to help too.
