Sunday, September 6, 2015

Storybook Brainstorming

Topic: Because Every Story Needs a Villain
Topic Comments: 
After writing my story this week on Lilith, I have decided that I like to put a voice behind the character most people are inclined to hate. Are they truly a villain or were they just a victim to circumstance. It would also be cool to maybe have a trial by the Gods of Mt. Olympus.
Possible Stories: The best stories for this idea would come from the Ovid's Metamorphoses Unit.
Sample Story Comments: My first choice of villain was sort of an obvious choice. Medusa. After all a woman that bitter has to have her side of the story told.
Source: Medusa



Topic: Alice in Where am I? Land
Topic Comments: I love Alice in Wonderland so I thought it would be an interesting spin for the Rabbit hole to be a vortex of time travel. Each place lands her in a different stories of mythology.
Possible Stories: I could really intertwine a lot of stories into this.
Sample Story Comments: Alice finds herself lost in the woods after chasing a cotton tail rabbit. She loses track oh him but in his place where she last sees him is a hole in which she enters another world. A world of the unknown. I would like to add characters in Alice in Wonderland but in different roles. Aphrodite as the Queen of Hearts, perhaps?
SourceAlice in Wonderland

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Topic: Brother vs Brother
Topic Comments: I really wanted to include a Grimm brother story for I really like the unconventional fairy tale.
Possible Stories: There are so many different stories to choose from. I am definitely drawn to the ones with Disney remakes but I would like to give the lesser known ones a chance.
Sample Story Comments: I chose Hansel and Gretel because to me, it is sort of underrated.
Source: Hansel and Gretel

Topic: Creatures of the Night
Topic Comments: I really prefer the mythical creatures and demons to actual protagonists in mythology.
Possible Stories: There are many storied that contain such but I found this I found this site on Celtic demons and thought it would really be incorporated with Celtic Fairy Tale unit.
Source: The Horned Woman



1 comment:

  1. I love your story ideas! I genuinely cannot wait to see which one you pick and how everything goes! The first one sounds so interesting. Giving any villain a voice is so, so rare but to give Lilith, the mother of all villains her own show! Then your spin on Alice in Wonderland (and the awesome picture you found for it!) sounds so cool (really I need to find better adjectives, sorry). Really though, you've taken very classic stories and put such a fun twist on all of them, you're so creative!

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