Drew Fazzino

For week 1 I chose to do a story lab instead of a story. The post I am choosing to read about is “Why you should open yourself up to the possibilities of Story” by Anthony Ehlers. In this story he talks about writers block and that one of the tactics is to just write every title down that goes with the subject you are going to write about. This might spark a little flame to start writing. Or another tactic is to just start writing and let your imagination take the lead, such as with the case of the girl getting off the bus and then coming back to no bus. She asks around and no one ever saw a bus or even remembered her. This is an example of letting your imagination take the lead. One of the writers quoted “Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.” This was said by Lorrie Moore, I found this quote interesting because I don’t know if I fully agree with this statement, because I do believe writers have an expertise

The story I am doing reading notes over is the search for sita, found in Gould. The Divine Archer part B. In this story Rama slays Vali with an arrow. Then after the monsoon season the search for sita began. Hanuman is helping rama with the search so he gives him a token, then heads south to the shore of the sea where they meet a vulture. This vulture tells then that sita is in lanka. Hanuman jumps to lanka and in the process he jumps over an enormous monster. What I got from this story is that if something on the other end of a journey or a task is important to you, you will fight through all obstacles to get to that end result. Reading Source: The Search For Sita (Pictured above is Hanuman jumping over the obstacle on his way to Sita. Picture Source: The Search For Sita )

The story I am conducting reading notes over for this week is Sita’s Departure found in Gould Divine Archer part B. In this story Sita sees Rama up on the throne and she calls out to mother earth. And asks mother earth to take her if she has been true to Rama. A golden throne appears from the earth where sita takes a seat and then disappeared to the earth. What I got from this story was that if the ones you love do not believe you in the time they need to the most, then the only way they will see the truth is by losing you. Story Source:  Sitas Departure (Depicted Above is the the scene of sitas departure, Picture Source:  Sitas Departure )

One brisk December day in the northern providence of British Columbia. There was set to be a great ski race, between two of the country’s greatest skiers. Anna was the best skier British Columbia had ever seen, she was younger and did not have much big race experience. Jennifer was an Olympic gold medalist for Canada as well had many other medals under her belt. On the line of the race was acceptance to the following years Canadian Olympic team, as well the recognition of being the best. Anna was very nervous, as she knew she was fully possible of winning but still had small reserves of doubt. She had watched Jennifer her entire life fly down the mountains, taking medal after medal. Jennifer on the other hand had confidence through the roof, thinking of this as just another race. They decided to meet up two days before the race for coffee at the base of the mountain. As they say at the bottom of the run they conversed about there own experiences and where they came from to get wh

The reading notes are conducted over “Rama Marches in Lanka” from the reading of Gould, Divine Archer. In this Rama and his army build a large bridge to lanka, that was engineered by the two monkeys Nala and Nila. Once Rama crosses over the bridge he signals his arrival to Lanka by shooting one of his arrows into Ravana’s own court, in the action of doing this Ravana’s crown gets knocked off.   In this story I took that the theme was that if you are going into enemy territory, go boldly. Story Source:  Rama marches on Lanka (Image is of Rama hitting Ravana with his arrow. Source:   Rama marches on Lanka )

The story I chose to complete for the reading notes was “The Death of Dasharatha” from the Goud. Divine Archer. In this story The king realized that Rama’s exile fulfilled   long-ago curse. This is because as a young man, rama killed a boy that he thought he was an elephant. Dasharatha was cursed when he told the poor, blind parents, that he too would suffer the loss of a son. Then Dasharatha died after telling the story. From this story I can create a story following a similar plot. Reading Source:  The Death of Dasharatha (Picture is of The Death of Dasharatha, Picture Source:  The Death of Dasharatha )

The week 12 story lab I chose to write about was the “5 Storytelling Software Options for Busy Writers.” I thought this would possibly be helpful to me because I am often very busy, so maybe some of the software would be found useful to me. The five different Softwares consisted of Scrivener, Aeon Timeline, Story Mill, Storyist, and The Novel Factory. The 3 that would seem to be most helpful to me was the StoryMill, Storyist and the Novel Factory. With Story mill you can keep track of how many times you use a word. You can also set a daily writing goal that needs to be reached. I believe this would benefit me because often times I do not write every day, and when I do, I tend to repeat words, so this software would help me diversify my vocabulary. The Storyist helps the writer track the plot, characters, settings and helps keep the writing organized so that the writer can focus on telling the story. I believe this would be beneficial to me because if I can keep the process leadin

The story I chose to do reading notes over was the Birth of Dasaratha’s Sons from the divine archer.   In this story four sons are born. They are sons of three different queens that Dasharatha is married to. In this story one of the queens Kaushalya witnesses baby Rama manifest as a cosmic being, and then go back to being a baby. This section will be very hard to write a story over because there is no plot to it, but what I could write about is that one of the kings queens births a special baby that will soon be great, and she witnesses it before her own eyes. Story Source:  Birth of Dasaratha’s Sons (Image Below is of Dasaratha's four sons being birthed, Image Source:   Birth of Dasaratha’s Sons )

The story I have read for Week 12 Reading notes was Arjuna’s Dilemma. In this story a battle is about to take place between an army commanded by Bheeshma fighting an army protecting Bheema.   Arjuna goes out in between the two armies and looks upon the opposite army. He is taken back and second guesses his god on why they are fighting. Because the uncles, sons, grandfathers that are on the other side are giving up their lives and wealth to Fight. Then the rest of the story he tries to convince the lord Krishna not to fight, And when it comes time to fight he says it would be better if the sons of Dhritaraashtra would kill me with their weapons in battle while I am unarmed, So he goes to the middle of the battle field and sets down his bow   and takes a seat in his chariot over whelmed. What I took from this story was that if violence is the only route out of a situation, you can still be your own person and choose peace instead. This can be made into a possible story for later storie

There once were two Sibling bears Sasha and Jacob that lived deep in the San Angelo National forest in the mountainous Colorado. They were preparing for the upcoming hibernation period by collecting food to suffice through the length of winter. Jacob the older of the siblings suggested getting a surplus of berries and pinecones because this would last all winter. Sasha agreed, and they split up to find as many resources as possible. When they regrouped a week later Jacob brought enough to last 2/3 of the hibernation period. Through this length of time Sasha was unable to find any source of food, and when Jacob asked what she found she said enough to last 1/3 of the hibernation period.   Jacob accepted this answer and went on with his day preparing his den where they would stay.   The elk spirit was watching over Jacob and saw Sasha did not collect any food, and remembered what Jacob had done for the elk community years before. Three years earlier the elk population was under