Week 6 Lab

Dog Meme (image source from Wikipedia)

“Why Not revise As You Go Along” – Carolyn See

I never thought I should revise as I’m writing because I would lose the momentum. When I am creating a story or writing notes, I keep writing until my thoughts are done. For me, I know if I stopped writing in the middle of the paragraph to revise, I would forget what I would write about. I do not want to revise something if I do not have the whole story finished.

“Learn How to Be in Your Head” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

It talked about how his friend had so much creativity through a stick. We all have the skill to be creative, but we just have to be open minded and explore. When I write my stories, it takes me a while to get started because I do not have any inspiration to kickstart it. I usually have to read my notes over and over again until something clicks. I try to always be creative, but my style is very minimalist.

“How Can You Teach Anybody How to Write?” – Charles Bukowski

Writing and English has always been my toughest subject in my early childhood. Maybe because Vietnamese was my first language, but it definitely was a struggle. I feel like I have improved my writing skills over the years. It took years and years of writing to finally be decent at it. I realized it is okay to make mistakes when I write because I can always get better by practicing.

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Reading Notes: PDE Mahabharata: Maya's Palace - Part B

King Duryodhana (image source from Wikipedia)

Mayasura built a palace that he promised to build for the Pandavas. He was known for being the architect of the demons. He owned gold and gems stored up on the Himalayas that were guarded by yakshas and rakshasas. It took Maya fourteen months to build a palace that gems looked like they were on fire.

The palace was known to be one of the most impressive building. It was so impressive that it was comparable to palaces like Indra, Yama, Varuna, Kubera, and Brahma. Maya had eight thousand rakshasas to be guards of the palace.

King Duryodhana came to the palace one day and made ignorant mistakes. He mistaken a crystal surve for a pool of water, so his clothes were drenched. He continued to explored the mansion in embarrassment and made more mistakes. He mistaken lake of crystal water with crystal petals for land, and he fell into the water.

Both Bhima, Arjuna, and the twins were laughing out loud in front of Duryodhana which upsetted him. He could not bear their laughter and refused to look at them. As he was trying to crossover for dry land, it was mistaken for water again. They all laughed at Duryodhana again.

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