Mythical Class

As one of my last assignments for this class, the TvTropes story lab was a great way to get some final information that I will be able to use with my future projects. This was such an interesting site- not at all what I was expecting. The idea of organizing characters and trope like this is such a wild resource- I can't believe that someone had the idea and exigency to put this together. I fell into a bit of an information exploration hole when I dove into the SOviet tropes. There are so many characters alone that I was inspired by. There is such a mystic about these sort of tropes that are so unfamiliar to the classic American canon- or what I associate it with at least. Another page that totally opened my eyes to the possibilities of the site was the "Dining in the Buff" definition. Watching a clip on The Big Short led me there, and it was pretty cool to see something explained in such a short clip. That is- the curators of this site took what seems like such a short pi...

This week I opted to do the story lab. I think my final addition to the story/portfolio will be the third section of my Asus and Ligh story . For the lab I read through the second chapter of EmpoWord. The resource was a great learning experience and seemed to be put together by a group of minds that are fluent in both writing and education. The chapter reads like it is designed to be in a textbook, but one that has a personal tone and is aimed at young authors. It defined some well-known terms like epiphany and dialogue, but also went into detail about things like the difference between narrative scope and narrative sequence. Out of all of the resources that I have found out about through this course, this online "textbook" is one that I know I will revisit. I thought that the exercises at the end of the sections could be useful, but were a bit inauthentic for me. Though, I suppose with how unsettling it is to be in a place where you are experiencing writers block, pieces of...