Epics of India

As the Pandavas narrowly escapes the torments of Duryodhana by means of escaping through a secret tunnel from under their homes, they would spend the next couple of years living isolated in a cabin high up the mountains. The five Pandavas lived closely alongside their mother, as their father had died of illness a long time ago. Day by day, the kids would help out around the house with the cooking and housework as their mother would trek down the mountain to the nearby village to buy the necessary food for the day. One day, as the usual housework was happening, Arjuna decided he would help his mother out by going down to the village below to collect the food as his mother was cooking. As he was getting older, he felt like it was his responsibility to help his mother out with the daily chores. "Make sure to be careful and be back before the sunset!"exclaimed Arjuna's mother, Kunti. "I will! I'll be back before you guys know it. Don't worry!" Arjuna r...

The Indian Story Book: The Five Tall Sons of Pandu by Richard Wilson The Young Princes On of the reasons why I chose this version of the Mahabharata to read was due to it having a more focused scope of the Pandavas, which played an important role in the arc of the Mahabharata itself Tells the tale of how the talents of Arjuna matches the talent of Karna, who was from more humble beginnings than that of Arjuna, who was royalty Fascinating in terms of the matter that lineage and royal blood doesn't have anything to do with power or talent. Multiple backgrounds. Draupadi's Swayamvara This is where there is a major change to the story, where in the original story, Yudhishthira became the wife of all the Pandavas. However, in this version, Kunti tells Arjuna that Yudhishthira was to become the wife of the eldest Pandavas even though Arjuna won the challenge. Ongoing battle of skill between Karna and Arjuna, involves the use of disguises for Arjuna who was of royal b...

I think for the moment right now, I would say that I am happy with how the class is progressing and how I think my skills as a creative writer has been increasing. That being said, there are several of my stories that I created that I never would've thought would be another way to write such a story, such as in a different perspective. This strategy overall extends the depth of the story so well. In terms of weekly routine, I feel like I haven't been strict enough with my time and need to work on setting routine and follow it, which is a difficult thing especially at this point in my college career. In terms of the extra credit opportunities, I haven't been doing them as much as I would've wanted to, do to my poor time management and the free time is very limited for me at the moment. In terms of the blog and website, I would say it's one of the few things in college where I've expressed my creative abilities in and something that I like doing, which essentially...

Comments and Feedback In terms of the feedback that I've been hearing and reading from the rest of the class, I feel like for the most parts, it does give me a good understanding as to what I can improve on myself as a writer. I can see that, with the most of the comments given, that one of the things that I should be doing better is the incorporation of more details associated with my stories. For example, for one of my stories titled "The Battle of the Brothers," there was a suggestion of adding more information to an otherwise arbitrary and mysterious timeline of the brothers being alone for the past five years and the commenter was wondering what are the details that happened within those 5 years. There were also suggestions that I should use more dialogue. Both were great, and I think these are the points that I should be incorporating when writing the stories in the future. I would add though, there were little to no critiques as to see if any of my content was co...

Overall, I think the reading and the writing assignments have been ordered and structured in the way that it is easy to remember and access every week. However, I do think that the only think that's been holding me back is the creative energy that is required for me to write the stories each Thursday! Not that it's extremely difficult, it's just that with the schedule I'm on with the rest of the aspects of my life, most of the time I am mentally strained and the words and the ideas never come to me. Plus, when it does, it's never perfect and me being a perfectionist and always wanting to have a great story is difficult. In general, I am perfectly happy with the blog and the website in terms of the design and layout of each one, as well as the story posts for each. I think that my biggest accomplishment with the writing in this class is creating a short moralistic story that is both inspired by one of the stories I've read as well as incorporation from one of th...