Extra Credit Reading: Fair Ladies of Camelot

Morgan Le Fay: Wiki Media Commons

I really like the idea of combining well know characters in stories and causing dramatic scenes where they intertwine. This definitely something I would consider doing in my future stories. I could use characters from Beowulf and make a connection between it and Homer's Odesey. Another idea would be to link some of my existing stories, such as cyclopes island and animal magnetism. Where the saint is on an island where are the animals that love him, are cyclopes. 

Cyclopes Island was by far the most fun I've had with story telling and I would love to bring it to my portfolio so that everyone can appreciate the weirdness that I created. I hope that this connection will yield an interesting story, but at the same time not be too weird. That has been the balance that I have been trying to find all semester.

I also like the dialogue in the story, where the writer worked herself into the story as if she was narrating the main character about past events. This is also a technique I could work into my stories in the future. Such as the saint could be getting interviewed about his time in cyclopes and how it compares with his usual haunts. I think that this is great idea that I will definitely be implementing in my next story. 

Story Source:
Aubryelle, "Morgan Le Fay." Fair ladies of Camelot.

Comments

  1. Laura GibbsOctober 29, 2017 at 9:08 PM

    Hi Matt, I think there was a mix-up here about assignments; the extra credit reading means doing one of the half-units from the UnTextbook for class, like a regular Part A or Part B reading. There is lots of Arthurian material you can do for extra credit reading if you are interested in that; the Arthurian material is listed here: Week 12: British-Celtic. Choose a unit, read all of Part A, take notes; it's just like a regular reading assignment. :-)

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