Myth & Folklore

 Sinbad  Photo by Andrew Neel from Pexels Sinbad Research:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_the_Sailor Just by reading the Wiki for Sinbad the Sailor I have come to find a lot of Arab writers were influenced by Greek writing when the story was written.  The voyages of Sinbad have a lot in common with the adventures of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.   http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/sindbad-second-voyage-cont.html In this story, Sinbad finds himself on an island with his crew in search of adventure and riches.  He takes nap only to find when awakens that his entire ship and crew have left him.  He has to escape large predatory birds from attacking him and finds a way to hitch a ride on one of them.  The bird (Roc) takes him to a dangerous valley full of diamonds and large snakes.  Another merchant crew was there and he is then able to join with them and return to Baghdad.  There is a lot to work with in this particular vo...

Project Brainstorming   Photo by Walid Ahmad from Pexels   Scheherazade  From what I have seen and researched about the story of Scheherazade I became hooked almost instantly and look forward to reading more.  I have never heard of this story, but upon reading it I really became interested in it.  My goal is that this will help me develop differences in the future plots of my stories.  I might be able to do a role reversal or even write about the sultan switching roles with grand-vizir. Sinbad I have seen an animated film that was an adaptation of this story, but that had to be at least 10 years ago.  From what I researched about this story, I have no prior knowledge and I look forward to being able to write up my own story with a similar plot.  I definitely enjoy adventuring stories and Sinbad should be a fun one to work with.  I find it to be easer to write about adventures because there is a lot of room to work with.  At any...