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Showing posts with label Week 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Week 3. Show all posts
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Feedback Strategies
Feedback is a big part of improvement. I always ask for feedback in anything I do. The two articles I read were Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback (Link) and Be a Mirrior (Link). I really like the term "feedforward" because it puts it into perspective of the purpose feedback is supposed to provide. The Be a Mirror article was cool because it incorporated the importance of the growth mindset.
Topic Research
I'm choosing epic battles for my topic because I think I can build around it well. There will be an abundant about of topics to talk about and various directions to go. Three stories are the Kurukshetra War (Link) and I plan to incorporate many dominant characters like Indra, The Thunder God (Link). I am excited to talk about all the different weapons that will be used in my stories as well (Link).
Kurukshetra War: (Wikipedia)
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Week 3 Story: The Ten-Headed Curse
Link to full story in project: Portblogio
It was a musky crisp night in the river of the Ayodhya, and everything was quiet. There was no movement, no sounds, no ripples in the water. Moments later, thunderous footsteps are approaching fromm the distance. They move closer and closer and it turns out to be King Dasharatha. He is a dominant ruler with one flaw, he can have no children.
There is an ancient legend about a ten-headed monster who lives in the waters of the Ayodhya, but nobody has ever seen them with their own eyes...or at least made it out alive after seeing him. But this is what brings King Dasharatha to the Ayodhya, because according to the legend, if you survive a bite from the ten-headed monster, it will drastically change your life.
King Dasharatha brought his top soldiers with him to the river, just in case things turn for the worse. There is a total of ten men, searching by the banks and jabbing spears into the water. After days of searching, there is no monster to be found. Doubt begins to spread across the group of men, contemplating whether they should go back home to their families, but King Dasharatha has no family.
As they begin to walk away from King Dasharatha's orders, a head the size of a boulder slashes out of the water and takes a man underneath. Followed by another head, and then simultaneously seven more, taking out all of King Dasharatha's men. He stands there alone, quivering at the site of the ten-headed monster emerging from the water. The monster roars "YOU HAVE DEFIED ME BY BRINGING YOUR MEN...YOU SHALL NOW BE A CURSED KING." The monster bites off King Dasharatha's arm off, and declares that he shall now have twins, a boy and a girl. The King is thinking to himself that this is rather a gift than a curse. The monster than screeches, "THEY WILL SERVE ONE PURPOSE IN THEIR LIFE, TO BUILD AN ARMY OF THEIR OWN AND OVERTHROW YOU AND YOUR KINGDOM." The King begins to beg for mercy and weeps on his knees. The monster doesn't respond to these requests, grabs him by the hair and flings him back to his kingdom.
As the King lands in the courtyard of his castle, he has to explain to his men to prepare for the greatest war they have ever heard.
The End.
Author's note:
I read Narayan's Ramayana this week, and it discussed the King and the ten-headed monster. It didn't develop off of the fact that the king couldn't have children so I made it a priority to incorporate that into my story. The ten-headed monster was a really cool character and I wanted to make him a dominant and feared character who serves a main role in my story.
Bibliography: Narayan's Ramayana (Link)
It was a musky crisp night in the river of the Ayodhya, and everything was quiet. There was no movement, no sounds, no ripples in the water. Moments later, thunderous footsteps are approaching fromm the distance. They move closer and closer and it turns out to be King Dasharatha. He is a dominant ruler with one flaw, he can have no children.
There is an ancient legend about a ten-headed monster who lives in the waters of the Ayodhya, but nobody has ever seen them with their own eyes...or at least made it out alive after seeing him. But this is what brings King Dasharatha to the Ayodhya, because according to the legend, if you survive a bite from the ten-headed monster, it will drastically change your life.
King Dasharatha brought his top soldiers with him to the river, just in case things turn for the worse. There is a total of ten men, searching by the banks and jabbing spears into the water. After days of searching, there is no monster to be found. Doubt begins to spread across the group of men, contemplating whether they should go back home to their families, but King Dasharatha has no family.
As they begin to walk away from King Dasharatha's orders, a head the size of a boulder slashes out of the water and takes a man underneath. Followed by another head, and then simultaneously seven more, taking out all of King Dasharatha's men. He stands there alone, quivering at the site of the ten-headed monster emerging from the water. The monster roars "YOU HAVE DEFIED ME BY BRINGING YOUR MEN...YOU SHALL NOW BE A CURSED KING." The monster bites off King Dasharatha's arm off, and declares that he shall now have twins, a boy and a girl. The King is thinking to himself that this is rather a gift than a curse. The monster than screeches, "THEY WILL SERVE ONE PURPOSE IN THEIR LIFE, TO BUILD AN ARMY OF THEIR OWN AND OVERTHROW YOU AND YOUR KINGDOM." The King begins to beg for mercy and weeps on his knees. The monster doesn't respond to these requests, grabs him by the hair and flings him back to his kingdom.
As the King lands in the courtyard of his castle, he has to explain to his men to prepare for the greatest war they have ever heard.
The End.
Ayodhya River: (Wikipedia)
Author's note:
I read Narayan's Ramayana this week, and it discussed the King and the ten-headed monster. It didn't develop off of the fact that the king couldn't have children so I made it a priority to incorporate that into my story. The ten-headed monster was a really cool character and I wanted to make him a dominant and feared character who serves a main role in my story.
Bibliography: Narayan's Ramayana (Link)
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Reading Notes: The Ramayana, Part B
I'm thinking about making Dashartha's death a planned fake. This would provide a good plot twist and would be an interesting build off. It would be cool to see Bharata become a dominate king after he is unhappy being made it. Everybody loves power when they get the chance to have it, and maybe I'll make Bharata turn into a greedy evil king. Lakshamana's punishment to Sita is the excitement I have been waiting for. I think it makes the story more interesting when rivals are relentless against each other.
Bibliography: Narayan's Ramayana (Link)
Rama and Lakshama: (Wiki Commons)
Reading Notes: The Ramayana, Part A
I like the setting in the city of Ayodhya. I have already written a story that takes place in a river, so this will be a familiar place to develop a story. The fact that Dasharatha has no children is an interesting aspect to the plot. Maybe I could incorporate a child that he doesn't know about yet and later becomes his enemy. The ten headed rakshasa is a great element to the story and will be easy to build off of.
Bibliography: Narayan's Ramayana (Link)
Bibliography: Narayan's Ramayana (Link)
Epics of India: (Wikipedia)
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