Indian Epics

So for this week I decided it would be a good idea to do a story planning post so I could get a few thoughts together. I really want to continue the epic of the preacher. I now have a pretty good backstory and a solid intermediate story but now I need to begin creating stories of his travels. Maybe he should make his way out toward California. I think that could work but the hardest part now is find a story from the Mahabharata to use as a base story to manipulate. This is partly also why I decided to do a story planning post too, so this way I will be able to have all the stories from the Mahabharata at my disposal. I do not think that this next story should be one with a battle in it. I think instead it should be about the preachers tough travels across the desert to the California border. Or maybe across the Rocky Mountain range. Now what story could be one that would work with this? Nevada's Desert For this first section of the Mahabharata I can think of one story where th...

This week I was torn between a couple options story wise as to what I should write about. After re-watching the animated film "Sita Sings the Blues" one more time I am still not sure what route I want to go, but I am leaning more toward extending the ending. I think that it will be a hard task in keeping it under the 1000 word limit, but maybe with some specific techniques it can be done. First, I would take the story up right where it left off with Rama shedding a tear and telling his son's that even though I just met them that he must leave them the throne and search for Sita. I think that I could make the introduction to the story longer to give some background and then on his travels give more of an outline feel for what he does. Leaving relatively longer paragraphs for people he meets along the way as well as the ending. Maybe, even, I could leave the ending of the story open. He might see Sita sitting on a far mountain and then end the story with him walking toward ...