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 )