Mythology and Folklore

Flow of Ideas  For my StoryLab, I returned to the Advice to Writers website. More specifically, I chose to read an article that I disagreed with, unlike my previous story labs. The article that I chose was,  Never Look at a Reference Book While Doing a First Draft .  The title is what caught my eye because it tells us to do the opposite of what I have been doing throughout this course. Not only in this course, but all other writing works that I have published often have an inspiration. No, I do not let it control my flow of writing, but it does help with generating a flow to expand on. If I were unable to use aids while writing, I know it would come out choppy and not at all how I intended. The article told me to not use a thesaurus, which is impossible for me to do. I always catch myself whenever I repeat a word a ton, and it is typically due to the word flowing best with my message. So, I often replace the word after much research within the thesa...

Jingles: Hey Diddle Diddle Nursery Rhymes: Jingles Cock-a-doodle-doo is fun and the story is cute too  I did not know that tweedledum and tweedledee came from a jingle  truly no better way to describe these tales other than jingle  Rub a dub dub has a queer humor to it  Nursery Rhymes: Love and Matrimony Jack and Jill  Different versions of "roses are red" Mentions Canterbury, reminds me of the tales  still do not know what &c means  Slightly shows how marriage was handled between sexes then  Mostly narrative songs, probably acted out  Nursery Rhymes: Natural History, Part 1 Natural history is typically how the earth was created or explains why something is a certain way in these tales its really just playful animals and humans some end with mocking humans or using them  Some animals are pets, also talks about the elements like wind  Interactions of human and animal, fictional natu...

Riddles: Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhymes: Tales little confusing on when a tale ends and a new one begins  slight rhyming, not very forced  they have the mother goose and golden egg in this section, could write about this one most follow an aa, bb stanza  Nursery Rhymes: Proverbs thought it would be about the bible  handled more of little day to day advice  guideline of morals  seems like a good way for kids to unconsciously remember what to do Nursery Rhymes: Songs, Part 1 longer, tell more of a story fox doing the tricking again makes me wonder how the songs are actually sung and in what setting  mostly aa, bb, cc stanzas  also a lot of ab ab  Nursery Rhymes: Songs, Part 2 The songs are the most difficult to take notes one they seem to send regional or cultural advice  but still hard to be sure because the context in which the songs were used  Hot Cross Buns!  Three blind mice...