Story Lab: Week 10

Advice to Writers

Gibson’s idea of writing the characters is interesting. I kinda like it. Because in a compelling story, the characters keep you coming back, not some weird cabin in the woods. However, I wish he expanded further because a bunch of separate characters in a story without something like an unfortunate accident, or a common goal keeps them from their potential. This was almost amazing advice. Just too short. 

Yiyun Li’s advice that the character should explore herself and the world is important. Books usually aren’t just one day, and if they are they are important day and people grow. The character has to grow as a person over the time and that requires self reflection. It isn’t easy to write but it is what makes people relate to the characters and is necessary to the story. And- it can be so much fun, so more people need to remember this!! 

Self Relfection

Week 10 Story B Pacific Northwest

Cry-Because-He-Had-No-Wife

There was a little orphan boy who was crying because he wanted a wife. His grandparents sent him to a girl. He came to a giant's house. He told him to turn into a little dog to survive a rock-cliff. He then got to the house and saw her guard-horse. He made it inside. They got married and they went back to the grandparent's house. They did not follow her directions, so they died. They then escaped the giant. 

Two Thunder Bird Stories

Only the thunderbird lived, When he touched the water, he created the earth. Next time he created animals. He gave the tinne a scared arrow. He lived as long as he had the arrow. Then they used the arrow and died.
An Indian's Vow to the Thunder Gods

Thunder spoke to a woman in a vision so she promised him her first child. She could not give herself to give her kid away. A year later she tried again but she couldn't. One day thunder gathered quickly and struck him dead.

Storms!

Chinook Ghosts

The ghost wanted to buy a wife so he bought blue Jay's sister. She disappeared the next day. He confirmed that she was alive. They became skeletons. Blue jay didn't know what he was doing and when he was going home he didn't follow the directions. He came back a skeleton. 

Origin of the Tribes

The monster lived in Wishpoosh. People wanted to fish there but they were killed. Coyote killed him after fighting hard. Their fighting created a bigger lake. The coyote used the beaver parts to create the tribes.
How the Ermine Got Its Necklace

Between Koyukuk and Yukon, an old man lived there. They made their way to the village and went into the big house. The women were better hunters and they competed until the older brother was killed. He went around to a bunch of animals and got a necklace.
Coyote and Grizzly

There was an always angry grizzly bear. She ate a band of Indians. She sent for a medicine man. He told her why she was sick. She chased the coyote. She fell from a bridge breaking. 

Coyote in the Buffalo Country

Coyote took to the trail again. Eagle said he couldn't go anywhere so he went. He needed food so he killed a buffalo-- he saved some for the bear. He became chief but the people thought he sucked. He played a trick on wolf and was a great chief.
Coyote and the Salmon; Coyote and the Fire

When coyote went to Klamath river he found everyone poor. He said it would have salmon soon. He stole the key from skookum and broke down the dam,
Falls of the Willamette

Tallapus found the Willamette poor but they could get salmon. He made tum-tums. Because he disrupted Tallapus's fire people now spearfish.
Tallapus and the Cedar

He made himself a coyote. He went into a cedar tree. He then couldn't get into it. He got the birds to peck holes into it. The raven stole his eyes, but he refused to show it. He traded eyes with the squaw. 

Week 10 Story- Pacific Northwest Native Stories

Pacific Northwest

How Silver-Fox Created the World

There was only water. Silver-fox wanted to make things. Coyote did not. He made islands when coyote was gone and then he got stuck on the earth. Silver-fox made the islands slowly bigger so he had more more room. He made other animals and trees so he wasn’t lonely. He also made the year 4 moons.

Three Coyote Stories

The silver-fox and the coyote lived together. They gave the shavings of the strive berry sticks away. They turned into people.

How Coyote Got his Cunning

They made fishes, then animals, then man. So the coyote became the meanest because he got the smallest bow. The Charley’s decided he would be the most clever instead. 

How the Coyote was killed

The coyote tried to follow the star. One day he jumped on. Then he got really cold and slipped to the earth. 

Coyote

How Kemush created the world

Kemush was the old man of the ancients. He made the earth from the ashes of the northern lights. He had his daughter help him. 

He tried to use the lynxes as a robe. It got stolen from him by an antelope. 

How old man above created the world

The world was flat. So he made a hole in the sky. He planted trees. He made animals. 

How Beaver stole Fire

There were no people. There was a cold winter.There was a council about it and the beaver did go. The pine trees had fire. The beaver hid the fire and took it.Cedar helped.

How dog stole fire

Pine marten stole the two wives. He brought rain which killed hawk-man. But, fires had been put out. The dog had fire still and put out the people who mad it rain. Then he gave it back.

The story of Ashish. 

The gambled. They lost everything. He dressed as Kemush and gambled again. Ashish’s wives looked for him and they stopped gambling because they missed him. He gave explanations of why he was at the top if the tree when he was found. 

Chinook Wind

There were five brothers. They would always argue. Their fights mad the area hard to live in. The wrestled and whoever fell off got their head cut off. Their grandparents put oil and ice so the chinook brothers fell. His son grew up and wanted revenge. He killed 4 of them then made a pack with he last walla walla brother that winters would only be a little cold. 

The first totem pole

wakiash never had a dance. He thought about it and ended up on the raven’s back to a gathering of animals. He wanted the totem pole. They called it the pole that holds up the sky. 

Three raven stories

There was no light. The world was a box and the gull could open the box. The raven got him to open a box. 

Wood rat and rabbits

The rat wanted to fight. The woodrat kept fight with everyone until he and his mother were burned to death. 

Why there are no snakes on Takhoma

The medicine man shot an arrow into a cloud, making a chain to the cloud. A bunch of bad animals followed him up including snakes so he broke the arrow chain and they fell to earth. All the good animals