Epics of India

(created using Adobe Spark) The best thing to spur growth is to take every opportunity as a chance to improve. Even if there's only a little growth, the accumulation from hundreds and thousands of used opportunities results in an end product that will be monumentally different from what was initially there. Take every moment, every situation, every circumstance - use them N.O.W. This is the final blog post. Thanks for following my journey through Epics of India, and with that:

(Turmeric rhizome and powder, from Wikipedia ) Turmeric I saw this on the class Twitter stream. I always thought it was spelled/pronounced "tumeric," but that's not the case. My mom LOVES turmeric because of all the benefits it has when you eat it. Apparently, it's in the same family as ginger! Whenever I buy turmeric, it's already processed and ground up, and is usually a powder, but it looks really similar to a ginger root, except that it's orange instead of yellow. The picture on Twitter mentioned mixing it with milk to cure coughs and colds. Next time I have a cough or cold, I'll be sure to try it. Ayuverda Of course, turmeric has many medicinal properties, and is used in a system of medicine rooted in India - Ayuverda. It's been said that Dhanvantari, the god of Ayuverda, passed on this knowledge to some physicians. It has treatments that include herbal, mineral, and metal mixtures, as well as surgical techniques, surprisingly! Anci...

The final story lab, and with it, my (and other writers') parting words: (questioning, taken from MaxPixel ) Make Trouble for Your Character "When in doubt, make trouble for your character. Don’t let her stand on the edge of the pool, dipping her toe. Come up behind her and give her a good hard shove. That’s my advice to you now. Make trouble for your character. In life we try to avoid trouble. We chew on our choices endlessly. We go to shrinks, we talk to our friends. In fiction, this is deadly. Protagonists need to screw up, act impulsively, have enemies, get into TROUBLE." -- Janet Fitch Without the characters, the story can't really happen. But a common pitfall I come to when creating characters is to make them too tame. Just as we sometimes need some suffering to grow, so they need that "push" of detriment to really spur their development. They a way to deal with my problems rather than a living, breathing part of the story they're in. Wh...