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Amanda D. Wolfe is...an aspiring writer though she has been cultivating ideas since she was young. Though not all the ideas were good, a core part of them serve as a nice backdrop for one of her writing projects, even if the content & characters are currently being revised in a more literary vein.
Stories, especially those that compose world mythology, religion, and folklore (The Six Swans, Ramayana, Kalevala, and Arabian Nights to list a few examples) are central to her interest in writing. In particularly, she wishes to use as many stories from various world cultures, mythologies, legends, folktales, and religion to create her writing. This is generally because she feels such stories, from Ancient Greek mythology to the Qur'an, address a prominent outlet for human thought, reality, selfhood, and culture (this idea may be expanded in an essay).
For the most part, her writing can be divided up into four categories:
1. Tochtatl (combination of Nahuatl words meaning rabbit-spider): strongly influenced by my still-evolving demon mythology and moon-animal mythology
2. Stella maris (from sea of star in Latin): strongly influenced by fairy tales, geography, anthropological evolution of humans and other animals, and the core backdrop of created ideas from her youth mentioned above
3. An Arabian Night: a revision of various tales from said story collection, most particularly Ala al-Din and the Wonderful Lamp, Julnar of the Sea, and maybe The Story of the Two Viziers with an acknowledgement toward & inspiration from Howard Ashman's original lyrics for Disney's variation of Aladdin
(1 through 3 seem to interrelate, touching on various historical periods; for example, having a series focused on early man in the Pleistocene and another series focused on some stage of the Persian Empire though they take place in the same world history)
4. General essays: usually focusing on philosophical or literary subjects gleaned from college lectures and assignments
Most of her writing range from drabbles to detailed interconnected stories. For the most part, she is unclear what to share and how to go about doing it, as most of her writing is in flux - finished but being revised or being written in its first draft. Since a lot of her writing is in pieces and does not necessarily follow the chronological order that would be best for a reader to understand events, it makes figuring out what to share a peculiar decision unto itself.
She hopes you enjoy the few things she puts up here, and hopefully you will find something worth reading. Thank you.
image of Sarasvati from The Book of Goddesses illustrated and written by Kris Waldherr
Robin McKinley quote from the Author's Note in Beauty
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