2020: Hannah's Blog

The main theme of my storybook will be urban horror stories as told by a pothead who recounts (his or her) terrifying nightmares ever since (he or she I can't decide yet) took a break from smoking marijuana. I'm still playing with ideas on how to construct the stories, whether I want each story to be a new nightmare or some greater twist will happen. I plan to follow a mix of the scary stories I chose for my topic research. I also really liked the style of the snopes website but I'm struggling with the creativity on that end. I'd like to have an element in the writing that was really unexpected and have it shock the reader. A lot of these dreams I've had myself but with some variation.

Urban Legend Horrors Looking back on my choices for storybook topic research, I found myself most interested in urban legends that were focused on the aspect of horror. I skimmed through a website called Snopes for more stories. I had heard of this website before but never took the time to see what it's all about. I love how easy it is to gain fact checks on really chilling things, even more so when it's proven to be true. I came across three stories that are centered about a common thread that I deem the most fear-striking component of all: Oblivion. https://www.snopes.com/collections/scary-urban-legends/ The first story was a fact check on the accidental burial of live people. The title alone struck me, as one of my biggest fears is to wake up six feet underground with no one to hear my screams, destined to die of suffocation. It's actually proven that accidental burial isn't unheard of and there have been hundreds of cases. This solidifies my reques...

The Dark Side of Fairy Tales https://sites.google.com/site/thedarksideoffairytales/home I began looking at the Grimm Brother's stories, as they're German stories. I really enjoyed the entire setting of these stories. It's like taking a cave tour with Disney's underground lair of villains. Or even similar to a Disney Alcatraz. I didn't even know the original Rapunzel story had a witch in it. It would be fairly plausible if Disney World wanted to profit off of an idea like this. Modern Day Dante's Inferno https://sites.google.com/site/macsmythologystorybook/home I've never heard the original story of Dante's Inferno, but this story is hilariously captivating. I think it's fairly common to write modern-day stories on ancient stories but this was the best one thus far. I liked the use of Kanye West as a main character and really using his real life behavior throughout. A bit of political banter was sprinkled in there and was done tastefully so. I...