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("Writing a Book" by Laura via Flickr ) For my Story Lab assignment, I looked through the Writer’s Write website and found an interesting article while looking throughout the page. The article is called “ Don’t Commit These 9 Fiction-Writing Crimes ” by Alex J. Coyne. This title really jumped out at me because I wondered if I made any of these so called “crimes” throughout all the stories if I have written in the class and if I have, is there a way to fix that. The first two points of this article go together as the mistakes are to either over-describe or under-describe scenes and setting. I completely understand this because if you under-describe a scene or setting, then it could be difficult to immerse yourself in the story and if you over-describe, it may seem like too much detail that pulls away from the main story. The third point is simply grammatical mistakes, but this can definitely be avoided by some proofreading. The next two points also go together as Alex d...

  ("Story Time" by L. Leslie Brooke via Myth UN-Textbook ) The story that I chose to focus my reading notes on for this post is “Nursery Rhymes: Accumulated Stories” by Andrew Lang(1897). The first thing that I noticed when reading this section of the stories is that these stories are a lot longer than many of the other stories of in this reading. My guess is it is because of the nature of these stories. In these stories, the beginning always starts off simple but then something occurs that leads an event to happen. Then the event that just happened causes another event to happen and this goes on and on. This seems to be the reason why this section is called “Accumulated Stories” as each line of the story just keeps building off the last line. In terms of grammar, each line is not necessarily a complete sentence and as such ends with a comma rather than a period. Another thing is that since each line builds off of each other, many of the lines are repeated in each “par...

  ("The Escaping Man" by L. Leslie Brooke via Myth UN-Textbook ) The section of the reading that I chose to focus my reading notes on for this post is “ Nursery Rhymes: Tales ” by Andrew Lang (1897). This section of the Mythology UN-Textbook focused on mostly nursery rhymes, but I chose to focus on the Tales section as I enjoyed the little stories told in each rhyme. As the name implies, each one of these the stories in this section rhyme. However, the way they rhyme differed between each story as one story could have one line rhyme with the very next line after it and another story could have one line rhyme with another line that is two lines after it. In general, the stories in this section are short in terms of a story but compared with the other nursery rhymes in the other sections, these stories are on the longer side. The punctuation of the stories is also quite interesting as the lines are not complete sentences and end with a comma rather than a period. I think...