You Might Be Mythtaken

When I started looking at the articles about feedback, specifically perfectionism, I was a little... well, not shocked, to see a lot of my personal traits listed.  Meme I made on memegenerator.net  The article 14 Signs Your Perfectionism Has Gotten Out of Control rattled off a list that was unnervingly close to my own personal traits. I tend to procrastinate. I am critical of myself and others. I do have a typically not do things that I think I could fail at. I always think that whatever I have accomplished is only a step towards a greater goal, something more, because it is never enough. I want to be excellent at everything, and average just doesn't cut it. I like grades because they are a measure of success that doesn't change. And I do have my fair share of good old fashioned Catholic guilt. The article claims that I should open up and be more vulnerable.  But I looked at the article Recalibrating the Perfectionist Mind for more information. They speak of perf...

So any way you shake it, I want to place my story within a museum. Shocking, I know. But the how and the content would change based on the topic chosen for the project.  Urban Legends  I think urban legends could be particularly interesting. There could be artifacts from hauntings or sightings. And as you pass each item, the object tells it's tale. A video interface could play and the story be written like a closed caption of a documentary about the item. A mirror used to summon Bloody Mary . A car scraped by The Hook. A haunted doll. I think dolls are one of the creepiest things imaginable. It would kind of be like the Black Museum for Black Mirror (if you haven't seen that show, you really should).  The Brother Grimm  Items and artifacts from the stories on display for everyone to see. The focus would be on princesses and their dark and twisted tails, focusing in on aspects of stories that are not known or publicized (in favor of Disney mythos). It could...

Camp fire by Eric Dufresne. Found on wikimedia . This week, my favorite story was  The Indian Who Wrestles with a Ghost by Katharine Berry Judson. This Teton Lakota ghost story features a warrior moving through the woods at night. He is on a quest, presumable to win honor and favor through the defeat of his enemies. The ghosts that confront him when he is camping take on different roles, testing him in different ways. Their trials tell him that he will defeat his enemies and steal many horses. The first night a woman comes from the wood crying for her son. When she came on his campsite, he pretended to be asleep in order to gain the element of surprise and to evaluate the situation further. She finally shows her intentions of stealing his foot off of his apparent dead body. He then springs up to confront her and scare her away. The first trial is of intelligence and cunning. The second night, a ghost comes and demands food. When given it, he offers the warrior a chance t...

I found three units or stories that drew me in. The concepts are interesting, and to be quite honest, that is what makes a good story, a compelling narrative to me. Turkish: Fear So, I was originally drawn to this story because, hey, it's a story about fear so that must be creepy. And we have already established I like creepy. But this story took me in another direction. The main character is trying to find fear; he can't experience it. He goes around trying to find fear, with different people trying to lead him to fear. Not to mention the supernatural elements trying to frighten him. I wonder what it would be like from their point of view. "Well, I appeared as a floating hand in a graveyard. And what did I get? A literal slap on the wrist! Not even a jump scare! It's your turn Bob." (why did I just name this character who was a woman in the story Bob? I don't know, it was the first thing that popped into my mind). I might want to explore this more later. ...