Lindsey's Epics

(Creating and Styling your writing; Source:  Pexels ) Like many people, I like to think I'm creative, but when it comes to actually writing the story, I have some trouble. I have always had trouble creating a fictional world for my work, especially in this class so far. The video,  How to build a fictional world  by Kate Messner, helps explain the realms of fiction. Authors of fictional stories create worlds that are not possible in real life yet readers understand them to be logical in that book's world. She says that your imagination and a willingness to figuratively live in your own world it what makes fiction. Messner's video was helpful to me as she poses some questions to help start building a fictional world. You need to start with where you are and when it is. Then she creates a timeline about the world and the rules placed in the world. After establishing the big pictures of the world, she then focuses on the day to day. Another struggle I have in writing i...

Prince Vidura, half-brother to Pandu and Dhritarashtra, guessed the plot of Duryodhana. Yudhishthira realized the condition of the palace and spoke his fears to his mother and brothers. Vidura sent a miner to dig Kunti and the Pandava brothers an underground passage. Once to safety of the forest, Bhima returned to the palace to seek revenge on the guardhouse in which he set fire to it. Wind blew the fire to catch on the lac palace which had happen to be housing a low-caste woman and her 5 sons all whom perished in the fire. The next morning, people thought the perished were Kunti and the Pandava brothers. The Pandavas entered the forest. Bhima watched over Kunti and his brothers. Hidimba and a disguised rakshasa human woman, who was his sister, tried to lure the Pandavas. Hidimba battled Bhima, but died. Bhima married the rakshasa woman. Her son vowed to aid them whenever they called upon him. Kunti and the brothers minus Bhima were in Ekachakra. Bhima appeared and went to Baka. Bhima...

(Ganesha writing the Mahabharata; Source  Wikimedia ) The birth story of Vyasa to begin the Mahabharata can be important in my project of karma. The king of Chedi, Uparichara, dropped his semen into a river and the result was 2 children, a boy and a girl. The king took the boy, but he did not want girl so left her with the fisherman's wife. She had a fishy smell and worked as a ferryman. She met the sage Parashara and had a son with him (out of wedlock) named Vyasa. Ganga, the goddess of the Ganges river took form into human as the eight Vasus came to her. She became their human form mother and promised she would cast upon them her children. King Shantanu saw Ganga in human form and was taken with her immediately. He asked her to wed him and she would so long as he never spoke harshly to her or question her actions. They eventually had a son, but she gave him to the Ganges. The king was horrified, but kept his promise to not speak to her about it. Seven children later, all of...