Story Book Plan Week 4: Werewolves

I have chosen for my project to do a storybook about Werewolves. I have chosen this because they have always been an interest to me, and I feel that I can write decent stories about them. The topics of the three stories vary starting with the first one being about a man that has made a deal with the devil in exchange for power to save his family from the men who took them. In this story he will get a ring and will be told to put it on when he is about to rescue his family. This ring will turn him into a werewolf in order to kill the men who took his family. However, it isn’t all that it is cracked up to be. I will be drawing on the lore about the men who put on a belt that turns them into werewolves. Except in this story it will be a ring and it will become permanent. The second is a brief retelling of beauty and the beast, but in this version the beast is a werewolf. The last story will be about a boy that goes for a walk late one night in the forest. On this walk the boy happens to have a wolf spirit enter his body. To get rid of it he must find a cure and fast before the spirit takes over. I will be adding music for effect on each page to be read with each of the stories. I believe the trouble will be shrinking these stories down into a brief short story. I have started on the Story Book website, and have included a link to that.

Sources: Werewolves, Human Animals, Book of Werewolves.

Link To Story Book

 

Spirit Wolf by Andrew McCluskey 

Week 4 Lab: Some Advice to Writers

I gained a lot of advice pertaining to writing from the advice to writers’ website. I learned how a lot of people got their start writing. Most people just picked up a pencil and started writing and found they loved it. From what I read in the interview section many of these people that started writing were ones that had a love for stories to begin with. They loved the way the stories filled their mind and came to life. As for a problem that most writers will face at some point when they are trying to get something on paper known as writer’s block. The solution to this is just to continue writing. One person quoted Anne Lamott by saying, “Just do it. Butt in chair.” Another person had the idea to just come at the subject matter from a different angle till you find an angle that works. I also learned that all the lines and characters in a fiction must mean something, and that it shouldn’t just be wasted space. Some advice that stuck with me is that the important thing is to write and not push of writing until you get some sort of inspiration. Getting started in writing can be tough and you may not know where to start, but the easiest thing to do is to write about something that interests you. Something else that could help new writers is to not pay attention to other people’s paths. Focus on yourself and where you are going, while discovering what fascinates you and dive into it. I feel all of this advice is relevant and can help someone not only start writing but get through difficult projects. In times of struggling to find the motivation or inspiration it is best just to start the writing. In times of writers block, just get started writing.
Source: AdviceToWriters

 

Fountain Pen Writing by Petar Milosevic

Reading Notes: The Iliad Part B

The Rousing of Achilles

Part 1

Patroclus borrowed the armor of Achilles so that he might go and raise moral and help push back the Trojans. In the battle Patroclus fell and lay dead between the Trojans and the Greeks. The Greeks and Trojans fought over the body. When the man who killed Patroclus to take his arms he was killed. In his place Hector came and took the arms from Patroclus and started dragging the body to the Trojans side. The Greater Ajax stepped forth and put his shield between the body and Hector not allowing Patroclus to be taken. Hector put on Achilles armor that Patroclus was wearing in retaliation to some things that Glaucus said to him. He showed that he was not afraid but acknowledged that Zeus kept flipping the side of victory from one people to the next. The battle raged on for the body and Ajax sent a man to tell Achilles of Patroclus demise, and how they were fighting for the body.

Part 2

Still fighting for the body of Patroclus the man sent has told Achilles of the news and Achilles is distraught. He is crying and weeping the loss of his friend he considered a brother. His mother comes and asks what the matter is, and he tells her that the man he loved as a brother was killed. Achilles feels he should have been the one to go since he is more skilled. He was so saddened he wanted to go to fight but had no arms for battle. His mother told him that she would go to Hephaestus and get arms for him to wear into battle. Achilles was told by Iris to go to the trench and show his presence to make the Trojans fall back. He shouted from the trench with Athene’s shield and a circle of gold that shown brightly above his head. The Trojans were so filled with fear they all fell back. Later they laid Patroclus body to rest. The Trojans were so afraid they wished to hide behind their walls and wait. Hector said why hide? I will meet Achilles on the battlefield, because the gods switch whom they give victory to. 

Bibliography: The Iliad, retold by Alfred J. Church 

Menelaus Holding the Body of Patroclus by Diana Mantuana