Christian's Epic Blog

 I decided to do more research on OU ghost stories for this assignment! I'm looking forward to discovering more about the supernatural side of the university :) While I was doing my research, I noticed that many of the stories were supernatural incidents that may be happening in the same building or part of campus.  Some occurrences, such as hearing voices from seemingly no one, seem like they would be hard to base stories around.  I think it would be cool addition to a story about ghosts, though I'd like something more exciting :) some of the other stories I have been finding are more exciting to me.  I think they could be used to draw inspiration for writing ghost stories of my own! The first story I really liked was about a music professor that haunts an auditorium.  It was from an article called Haunted Norman: ghost hunting on the OU campus. The article didn't  initially outright say the names of some of the buildings, but the author drop details such...

     While I was on the fence about which topic to pick, I ultimately decided that epic heroes is the most interesting topic to me.  Reading through the Ramayana really helped to solidify my decision.  I love the character of Rama.  He is a larger than life figure with seemingly no faults, at least from what I have read thus far.  He is a natural born leader and a prodigy in every sense of the word.  It would be really fun to write about someone such as Rama.  The fact that Rama is an incarnation of Vishnu makes his story even more interesting; I can see parallels from these ancient Indian stories to other ancient Greek and Nordic stories.  For instance, heroes such as Hercules and Thor were also godlike beings and had crazy heroic adventures.  I would love to be able to write about someone who is practically invincible!  Reading through the PDE of The Ramayana helped me decide that I wanted to write about heroes.  It was...

     For this topic brainstorm, I began by browsing through the project topic listings.  I looked at all of those that stuck out to me.  After reading into each of the ones that stood out, I then narrowed it down to four to focus on.  I have included links for each one of the topics.  The page that I am linking for each of them is the page which I found the most useful in helping me decide that I ultimately wanted to include that topic in this post.  The first topic that initially stuck out to me was  The Loving Couples of the Ramayana .  This page helped because I saw immediately that I would have so much material to go off of if I were to choose this topic.  I liked that it included but was not limited to the story of Rama and Sita.  I have never written romance in any way at all, so I think it would be a new and exciting way to stimulate some creativity that I have never had to use before.  I think it would be really fu...