Are you a Steven fan? I would like to invite you to join our fan group. This isn't just any fan group...this is a writing group that gets together and talks about Steven and his latest projects, etc...but also we write stories using Steven's characters. The setting takes place in a location called "Waddingtyn Willows". This is a secluded village in the midst of a beautiful woods area with mountains, lakes, rivers, trees, etc. where all of Steven's characters have gone once their "role" has been fulfilled. Of course they never have a clue how they get there or why. It's so much fun! The rest of us have written characters (usually representing ourselves) to also end up in the Willows without a clue as to why. Then we "lay claim" so to speak on a Steven character or two that we wish to center our writing on. You can read some of the synopsis below. Plus I have most of the chapters up online that I have written for the Willows over the last few years (some are missing, sadly). The link below will take you to a Willows page that has some pictures of what we think the Willows is like, plus pictures of Steven's characters in the Willows, and us women folk too! If you are interested, you can email me at iluvduncan@yahoo.com. Waddingtyn Willows main links page Here is a synopsis for my character Snow in Waddington Willows over the last few years of writing about her (this also includes Lily and Liz): My character is indeed the character of Snow White. Snow arrived in Waddington Willows via a portal from her time. She was running from the huntsman after the queen told him to cut out her heart. He told her to run away and never come back. As she ran, she fell into a hole and into the Willows. Here she made friends and fell in love with and married Mike Lovall (Steven's character in the Nescafe commercial). Following her into the Willows was the wicked queen herself who since then has been trying to kill Snow in any way she can...every attempt failing. By accident, Snow discovered a jewel mine in the Willows and a dwarf, Ben who was a descendent of the seven dwarfs (that Snow never did get to meet since she fell into the Willows before she found the dwarfs cottage in her own time). Ben and his pet wolf Max befriended Snow and she visited his elaborate mine often. In the belly of the mine, they discovered hidden caverns...one of which housed a magic mirror that led back to Snow's own timeperiod to a mirror in her own castle. She also found a painting of her father and mother (the king and queen) and behind the painting was a letter from her father that she never received. After the supposed death of her mother, her father remarried a woman who became Snow's stepmother and was also a witch unbeknownst to the king. The stepmother Margurite, hid the letter from Snow in the painting that Snow found hundreds of years later in the mine. In the letter, the king told Snow that her mother had been ill and he entrusted her health to a dwarf sorcerer named Rumple who said he would heal her for his first born child. Hence the queen had complications in childbirth and had to be put under. She had twin girls and the king had no choice but to give the dwarf the first child...the queen never knew she had another daughter. When Snow was five, the queen fell ill and died (supposedly). Snow went into the mirror to find her sister after reading the letter. Her sister had been raised as a dancer by a band of gypsies, run by the dwarf Rumple (who turns out was actually the eighth dwarf kicked out of the seven dwarfs mine for practising sorcery). Snow brought her sister Lily White back with her through the mirror. Lily was suffering from horrible nightmares due to her being raped at fourteen by the captain of the royal guard. She did fall in love with Thomas in the Willows, whose gentle nature was able to break through her "wall". The "captain" entered the Willows looking to terrorize Lily further and also was working with the queen who was trying to kill Snow. Finally Lily killed the captain, who turned out to really be her mentor Rumple, morphed to look like the captain of the royal guard all the time...Lily was mortified. Also in the mine, they found another hidden cavern with a sleeping Elizabeth...Snow and Lily's mother. It turned out that she did not die, but was put under a sleeping spell by Rumple to "fein" death as he was in love with her and wanted her for himself. However, the dwarves kicked him out of the mine before he could wake her and they didn't know of her existence. So she slept for hundreds of years till her daughters found her. In the midst of it all, the queen had taken a fancy to Edward. She morphed into Snow whilst locking her in a cabin under a sleeping spell and at the same time put a spell on Edward to make him fall for her as Snow. Once Snow returned...still under the queen's spell, Ed got a hold of the queen's morphing ring and morphed into Mike and slept with Snow...her thinking he was her husband. Snow was mortified when she found out the truth and she fell pregnant, but lost the baby. With Snow deciding to stay in her life in the Willows with her husband, Lily decided to take her sister's identity back in the kingdom and she and Liz returned into the mirror. After the death of her sorcerer partner, the evil stepmother queen made a desperate attempt to destroy the Willows village. Snow stopped her by pushing her off the cliff of a mountain, but in doing so, also went over the edge with her. Mike was devastated and attempted suicide, but was saved by Lily who had returned to the village as she felt all was not right regarding her twin. Mike was deluged with grief and from then on believed that Lily was Snow. Lily, who was now known as "Snow" in her kingdom, was betrothed in an arranged marriage to a prince back home that Snow used to be acquainted with. Lily was torn with her love for Thomas and her duty back home. The responsibility got to her and one night she had too much to drink and fell asleep in Mike and Snow's cabin. Mike arrived home and in thinking she was Snow and her dreaming of Thomas, they slept together. The next morning, he was mortified to find what he'd done. He felt he had tainted his wife's memory. Mysteriously, Snow arrived in the village alive and atop a white winged pegasus horse named Ophelia, whom had saved her from falling to her death many months before. Mike was overjoyed and they renewed their marriage vows...however Mike was still grieved that he had mistakenly slept with Lily not knowing that Snow was still alive. At a party, Lily's roommate had too much to drink and revealed the secret of Lily and Mike's inadvertent affair. Snow declared that she and Mike were now "even" after what happened with she and Ed and their marriage is now stronger than ever. They are now trying still to have a child of their own to no avail as of yet. Lily returned to the kingdom to fulfill her duty in an arranged marriage to Prince Raymond. Snow has been trying to become friends with Mai as they used to be...but Mai is afraid the Mistress (spirit of the Willows) will hurt Snow if Mai is too close to her (as Mai is the WIllows guardian) so she has been pushing Snow away. Ophelia is really the Mistress's child who was masked as a pegasus horse and now lives in the Willows as a woman. Liz then one day came back to the Willows to reluctantly get Snow's help. It seems the man Lily was betrothed to marry back in their kingdom, had somehow changed into someone he was not and it scared Liz. Lily suffered a nervous breakdown with all she had been through and Liz brought her back to the Willows. The man Lily was betrothed to was killed by Victor, Margurite's brother and he took over his indentity. It seems their plan from the start was to take over. So Victor, Marg's brother has put a spell on Snow to give her amnesia in his plot to bring her back to the White kingdom and marry her to take over. Meanwile, poor Lily is suffering from a "split personality" condition.