Indian Epics

Looking back at my blog I definitely feel it’s coming along great. I will say it feels empty in some aspects as I have been skipping on doing some reading notes. I often do my post very last minute, but this is a commonality between all my classes. I feel the “grace period” as just an extended deadline so I often just wait to complete the posts in the morning. That’s not to say I’m not busy because I am as this is my final semester at OU and I am taking a lot of film production classes. I want to try to change up my blog post schedules to help with the last minute timing..may be difficult at first but I think it’s doable. I’d also love to write more descriptively, put more details into the characters and their environments. I still don’t think I need to change the appearances of my blogs, I like their simple looks. Personal photo of me, my dogs, and my parents dogs.  I know this photo doesn’t exactly seem “motivating”, but it makes me  happy which in turn lightens m...

comments I have recieved have been kind and often helpful. I like reading what other students have felt about my stories. I also love to see people responding to my introduction and enjoying the pictures of my dogs. Many student have left very helpful feedback that encourages me to expand on my stories. Sometimes I feel my feedback is useless. I often tell students how I enjoyed their stories and what I had hoped to see more of. Sometimes it’s hard to critically analyze ofher students work and to point them in a direction they may be respondsnt to. I really enjoy reading other blogs, specifically introductions. I have seen some cool storybooks and some good stories in other student’s portfolios that encourage me to try harder in this course, I just often don’t have the time to fine tune and polish all of my posts. I do think every blog has a personality, just as mine reflects the simplicity I like in my life. I think I should actually enact some of the advice I’ve been give on my...

So far this semester I have felt that my stories have been great. My reading notes haven’t really changed much, and I’m not exactly one to change how I initially percieve the readings and change them in the notes. Often my notes consist of simple facts about the story that I can adjust in my own retellings later. I’m finding it a little bit difficult to go more outside the box with my stories, I often wont change a lot about the originals besides a few facts/the charater names. I aim to just retell the story to make it easier to understand or more interesting to read. I’d say I could work towards making my stories more creative, and that would probably start by taking my notes more outside the box and have them be less conventional. My favorite story to write and improve upon has been my first story and first portfolio story “The She Demon and the Prince”. I loved changing it up and emphasizing Shurpa’s lust for Rama on top of her greed. This is based off the Ramayana, which I have...