Shea's Myth-Folk Blog

I had a hard time deciding what to use for my acronym, so I actually chose the graphic first. I saw the flower and through of the word grow. I think a big part of the Growth Mindset is not being afraid to try new things and make mistakes, and this is often by doing your own thing even when it's not the "norm". Graphic created by me in Canva

This word counter is so helpful! I usually go to a word counter website and write my text in there, then copy and paste it. This extension makes it easy to just write where I will posting my text so I don't have to flip between tabs. I usually am worried about meeting the minimum word count, but I usually don't have an issue hitting, I am just afraid that I won't. I think I am generally bad in estimating numbers in general, so I probably would be very off in my estimate if I just tried tried to guess how long my writing is.

Nelumbo nucifera : The lotus flower, or the Nelumbo nucifera , is a species of aquatic plants. I chose to start here because one of my recent stories, as well as the story I based mine on, included the lotus in the name of a place and I was curious about the meaning behind the flower. The species is sacred to Hindus and Buddhists. The flower is even featured on the flag of... Macau : Macau is an autonomous territory in East Asia. Although the history is traced back to the Qin Dynasty, it wasn't a major settlement until the Portuguese arrived in the 16th century. In November, they host the Macau Grand Prix, in which they convert the city streets to be similar to the racetracks of the... Monaco Grand Prix : This Formula One motor race is held in Monaco every year since 1929. This race is one of three that forms the Triple Crown. Ayrton Senna has won the race more than any other driver, and he is from...  1929 Monaco Grand Prix Brazil : This country is the largest in So...

For this Story Lab, I watched Ted Talks about stories and storytelling . The first video is the TED Talk of a woman named Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Nigeria. From a young age, she has been a storyteller. She read foreign books for much of her childhood and based the stories she wrote based on what she read in these books. She eventually discovered books and she learned that writers could look like her. When she came to university in the United States, her roommate was surprised to learn Nigeria has English as an official language and that she was familiar with many of the comforts of American life. She believes people like her roommate have a view of Africans because of writing that portrays them as living in a dark place. When Chimamanda wrote a book, her professor told her the book was not "African enough" because the characters were similar to him, a middle-class man, and they drove cars. When she visited Mexico, she realized she saw the people there as poor immigran...

This week, I chose to read American Indian Fairy Tales. In the story " The Little Boy and Girl in the Clouds ," the Story-Teller Iagoo sits looking into a fire. The children know not to disturb him, as he is thinking through the great things he had heard and seen. One night, though, the children begin to worry they would not get a story from Iagoo. One girl named Morning Glory asks Iagoo if the mountains were always there. He replies that he often thinks about this himself, then says that yes, the mountains and hills were always there. He goes on to say, however, that there was one hill that was not always there bur rather it grew like magic. He asks the children if he has told them the story of the Big Rock and how it carried a boy and girl up to the clouds. In the old days, in the time when men and animals got along pleasantly, there lived a little boy and girl. They lived in a beautiful valley filled with green grass, colorful flowers, berries, birds, and nothing to f...