Well, with three balls, Cinders knows [joke cut by taste police]!
It's your story, do what you want. I've seen a version of Cinderella with nine balls! Top it - have ten balls, if you want. Have as many as the story requires, and you feel like writing. But watch the costume budget - even imagination tends to run out after six or seven original captivating and beautiful dresses in a short space of time.
Plus, it's a "traditional" story, with no rigidly defined "original" version any more, so, if you were writing it anew, would people be able to tell? And, would three balls be enough? Every story, no matter how absurd or childish, must have internal plausable deniability consistency, for the suspension of disbelief to remain throughout the narrative. Which is why I do silly things like forget to draw maps and have to keep referring back to what I've written to find out where everybody's gone.
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It's your story, do what you want. I've seen a version of Cinderella with nine balls! Top it - have ten balls, if you want. Have as many as the story requires, and you feel like writing. But watch the costume budget - even imagination tends to run out after six or seven original captivating and beautiful dresses in a short space of time.
Plus, it's a "traditional" story, with no rigidly defined "original" version any more, so, if you were writing it anew, would people be able to tell? And, would three balls be enough? Every story, no matter how absurd or childish, must have internal plausable
deniabilityconsistency, for the suspension of disbelief to remain throughout the narrative. Which is why I do silly things like forget to draw maps and have to keep referring back to what I've written to find out where everybody's gone.BTW - Genre: Science Fiction?