Reading Notes: Pacific Northwest, Part A

-Character development across multiple stories is something to keep note of and add if I want readers to see how far a character has come. In the Native American stories of the Pacific Northwest, Coyote seems like nothing but a curious person and follows Silver-Fox for companionship. But as time goes on, he begins to resemble the mental image I have of what coyotes are really like, and he reflects that when he becomes mean and cunning.

-Some short stories break lines every couple sentences or so. It somewhat adds to the image that the reader is watching something happen in real time, since perspectives and point of views are changing so quick. Considering using this method to make a story feel like its going faster or that something is happening quickly in the story.

-The Native American folktales I'm reading explain the creation of the world. It's interesting to see how different cultures believe different origin stories, as they all seem to have a running theme of celestial beings with powers shaped the world with their own hands.

The Pacific Northwest, where I grew up

Web source: Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest, especially of Washington and Oregon, by Katharine Berry Judson (1910)