Comments: I know the main stories of the Bible pretty well, but I am no theologian. I chose this topic because of how much fun I had writing my storytelling post about Alice in Wonderland entering the garden of Eden. I want to learn about the stories in the Bible more. I believe the research I could do would be beneficial in portraying the stories in a respectable fun light. Also, the more I know will make it more funny because I'll have even more information to work with! It seems like it will be a very fun topic.
Possible Stories: There are a ton of websites with Biblical stories. I would name many, but research is the name of the game for me. I like to use Duke's empirical research stories and Wikipedia. If you google anything else about the bible something is sure to come up.
Sample Story and Bibliography Information: The Fall of Man from the book Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg (1909) from the Un-Textbook. I chose this story because I know what happens in it and think it'd be fun to add a twist. Eve is tempted by a serpent to eat from a tree God commanded her not to. I like that most know this story so if a pleasing funny change was made, it would have an affect on the reader.
Topic: King Arthur's Journeys
Comments: I know some about King Arthur, but not a ton. I chose this topic because I have always heard wonderful tales about it. I hope to use this topic to help create a modern day King Arthur by including the King himself in the story. I am talking about time travel and all of its mysteries. So, one of my ideas is to twist a plot in a story and transport King Arthur to another time to help another King. Somehow their situations would be related.
Possible Stories: http://www.britannia.com/history/h12.html, this site was extremely helpful in finding background information about King Arthur and all of his journeys.
Sample Story and Bibliography Information: The Coming of The Holy Graal within the book King Arthur: Tales of The Round Table by Andrew Lang (1902) from the Un-Textbook. I chose this story because the more I research, I find that pulling stories together from each topic may be very entertaining. The quest for the Holy Graal starts out with disapproval from King Arthur. His men wish to go, but he does not want this. I feel like I could show the Fall of Man scene listed above at the same time as this one. The reason being is it would be a good beginning with so much chaos happening and all of a sudden one of these storied characters gets warped somewhere. I want to put these stories together somehow.
Topic: Beowlf Facing Grendel's Mother
Comments: I chose this topic because I feel since I am in the theme of time travel this topic has characters that would fit into a good plot. I feel Grendel's mother would make a good villain or satan if you will. I plan to have multiple versions of each character in each time they are present in. I cannot reveal the ending though. I want to learn what makes this story unique make its style fit
present in the story. It reads pretty intensely.
Possible Stories: Other possible stories are Battle with The Dragon, The Battle With Grendel, and Beowulf's Triumph. These are all from the Un-Textbook.
Sample Story and Bibliography Information: Seeking Grendel's Mother in The Story of Beowulf by Strafford Riggs (1933) from the Un-Textbook. I chose this story simply because I like the build up towards Beowulf meeting Grendel and because Grendel would make a good villain. I feel the scene depicted in this story gives me a good format to work with when writing.
Topic: Homer's Odyssey
Comments: I chose this topic because it has great scenes with many characters interacting with one another. If there is one thing I want, its a ton of characters sharing a journey with each other. That is the only way my story will work. Oh I also have tried to incorporate as many different cultural stories and this one is Greek which I did not have yet.
Possible Stories: Other possible stories are The Curse of Polyphemus and The Death of Elpenor. These are all from the Un-Textbook.
Sample Story and Bibliography Information: Escape from the Cyclops from The Odyssey by Homer and translated to English by Tony Kline (2004). I liked how the characters literally just got away from the cyclops. It gives me on ideas how I might have my characters escape Grendel. Everything ties together and each story so far (like this one) gives specific ideas for scenes throughout my whole time travel story.
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