Week 8 Reading and Writing

As far as reading and writing goes for this course, I am struggling with the reading part. I am a slow reader in general and feel like taking the time to read a whole story takes an entire night. I know it would never actually do that but that is what it feels like. As far as the writing goes, I do not have any problems because I love writing. I also have plenty of things to say so that should not be a problem for the rest of the semester. I need to get caught up on my reading because I am quite a few points behind as far as the reading goes.

My favorite writings were my first two stories. The Jataka sequel and the diary. Something about getting to make a sequel to a story allows me to continue the story how I want. Rewriting a story is boring and does not provide the newness that something different provides. For my storybook I am picking stories most people have not read so it will be new for them and also I am not retelling, but telling it from the point of view of the main character.

I was not happy with my original blog, but I fixed it and am much happier with it. There could be a few tweaks to it, but I am not too worried about it now.

(Vali Dying. Source:Wikipedia)

This is one of my favorite images from one of my favorite stories. This is from the story of Vali dying. My story was a speech given by Sugriva. This image shows Vali dying which goes along well with the emotional speech given in my story.

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