Mythology Blog

For this week's story assignment, I decided to do a story lab since I haven't done many of these. Of the listed options, I chose to read through some of the posts on the "Advice to Writers" site, and I was not disappointed! Some of them were funny, others were kind of abrasive but they all had a little nugget of wisdom to offer. Of the ones I read, I found a couple that I liked because they seemed like good writing advice, but I found more that I liked because they seemed like good life advice. Here are the two that I liked the most. "Be a Good Steward of Your Gifts" Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours. -Jane Kenyon " The Useless Days Will Add Up to Something " The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs...

Hi! For this week, I chose to do a story lab looking at different plot divices from tvTropes instead of another story. I used the "Random Trope" button to suffle through pages, and found a few that I recognized or thought would be interesting to try using! So here we go! The Big Guy : For this trope there was a picture of Chewbacca and Han Solo at the top of the page, and if you have ever seen the original trilogy you'll already understand a large portion of this trope. This character, The Big Guy, is really common in action movies, but I didn't realize how vercetile it could be. In particular, the article pointed out the different options for The Big Guy's characteristics other than just being "the muscle" or the "brute force". The accompanying characteristics included loyalty, gruffness, meanness, gentle giant, calming, wise, dumb, smart, loud, withdraw n, and many others. The secondary traits they have depends on what kind of "Th...