Week 7 Story Planning: Gambling in the Himalayas

This week I have focused on many different elements of the reading that I am going to focus on for my story next week. In reading A, the thing that stuck with me the most is the scene where Bhima kills the Rakshasa. I am not going to revolve around this same plot, but in reading B, I got really into the dice game that was played. And my thought for my story this week is to deviate from battle and war scenes, and write about something different. So, after thought and reading, I decided that Bihma and some made up characters will be hiking through the Himalayas to buy land on the other side of the mountain range. They will be carrying lots of gold in order to purchase this desired land. While traveling through the mountain range, they will stumble across a casino, and curiously enter in and gamble some of the gold they have on them. The Rakshasa's will be the dealers at every table and own the casino. I am planning on having Bhima lose all of his gold, and gamble away everything, including a sacred horse he is riding on. The sacred horse idea came from reading D, when Bhima cut the head off a horse and it ascended into heaven. Maybe throughout the week I become nicer and make Bhima win a lot, but I think I will stick to my plan of devastation!


Research: I looked into more depth about the Rakshasa, because they are going to be in control of the casino in my story. I did not know that they were also called "Maneaters" but this makes writing about them even more exciting. Rakshasa's were created from the breath of Brahma when he was asleep, which is a really obscure point of creation. They are ugly and enourmous creatures who have two fangs on the top of their mouth. These will be very intimidating casino dealers in my story! (Link to Rakshasa)


Bibliography: Mahabharata by R.K. Narayan (Link)

Dice Game: (Pixabay) 

Week 5 Planning: Kings and the Sons

I am going to combine my reading notes Part A and Part B for my story next week discussing the attempted rebellion of two kingdoms. I went two separate directions in both of my reading notes, but after brainstorming about it I think I have the plot that I want to do. In reading A I discussed King Dashartha having four sons who will ultimately grow to hate him and branch of into their own kingdoms. But after thought and also after part B reading, I want to combine the kings and combine the sons from both of my readings. Part B I focused on Dave breaking up with Nina, while he didn't know Nina was pregnant with his son. So my plan for next week is to go forward in time to where King Dave's sin has been born and have him cross paths with King Dashartha's four sons. They will form an alliance and plot against the two kingdoms under King Dashartha and King Dave. The two king will then catch wind of this information and have to form their own alliance. It will cause a dual kingdom rebellion inside the royal families, so like a combined civil war between two countries, which I think would be a fun angle to write a story about. I would have to come up with a way for the 5 combined sons to gather an army to defeat the Kings. I am thinking about having them talk in secret to the actual armies of the kingdom, telling them the news of a rebellion. This will also play into the fact that the kings find out the rumor of rebellion, by a loyal soldier telling them the news. I am excited for this upcoming story, and am planning on making some ad hoc changes.


Bibliography: Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley (Link)

The Alliance of the two Kings (Wikipedia)