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Story Lab Assignment (Fountain Pen from Wikipedia Commons ) For this story lab assignment, I read Telling a Story from EmpoWorrd . I decided to do this lab assignment because I really don't know that much about the mechanics and writing and would love to branch out and learn more. I have a really hard time writing dialogue and deciding and sticking to a perspective in my writing. This is mostly because I only write as a hobby and very irregularly. As a result, my default writing style is like a scientific report, which is not conducive to good creative writing. In this article, they talk a lot about the different stylistic elements of writing. The information about the sequencing of a story was really interesting. I've never thought about telling my story not chronologically. I guess in my mind it's hard to figure out a way to tell a story that's not sequential. Hopefully, with some of the information from this article, I will be able to develop my writing in new...

Reading Notes The Jar of Beauty/The Sleep of the Dead (Psyche Asleep by Anthony Van Dyck at Wikipedi a) Plot: In this part of the second half of Cupid and Psyche's tale, Psyche has completed her last task from Venus. She has journeyed into the underworld and come out with divine beauty in a jar. She is unable to contain her curiosity though and decides to open the jar since she did all that work to get it. Inside the jar is not actually divine beauty, but the Sleep of the Dead. Cupid healed from his wounds wants to see Psyche and finds her in the sleep of the dead. He saves her from her sleep and puts it back in the jar. Characters: For the particular part of the story I focus on only Psyche is in it. Cupid joins in at the end to save Psyche. Lesson: I feel that there is not really a lesson in this story which I do not like. I was disappointed that Psyche did not learn her lesson and again let her curiosity keep her from her happiness. Ideas: I would definitely like ...

Reading Notes focused on Psyche's Despair (Cupid and Psyche by John Hoppner on Wikipedia Commons ) This week's reading is a little than the other ones that I have read so far as it is one long story instead of several shorter stories put together. Because of that, I am focusing my notes on one of the chapters in the first half of the story. Plot: This is the last chapter of the first half of Psyche and Cupid's story. At the beginning of this chapter Psyche, tempted by the evil scheming of her sisters, has gazed upon her mysterious husband and discovered it's Cupid. Since this went directly against what Cupid asked of her, he banishes her from his bed and their palace with only the things that are hers. Psyche is in despair as she loved her husband and her life and knows she has thrown it all away. While wandering, she encounters Pan and he tells her she should pray to Cupid. Wandering farther, she encounters one of her sister's kingdoms. She devises a t...