Finding Your Inner Goddess: Brainstorming Styles

Topic:
This will be part self-help, part storybook. I'm going to use examples of strong goddesses to teach others how to find their inner goddess and become more confident, powerful, and strong. It will tell of these amazing, powerful goddesses and would choose a story for each goddess to use as an example of their awesomeness and why someone would aspire to be like them. Each story will aim to teach a lesson and help guide the reader to empowerment. It will be fun, but include some of the ways self-improvement could positively impact your life. It would be mostly geared towards women but would also be both insightful and (hopefully) entertaining for the males in this class.


This will also be a fun way to do some self-evaluation and soul searching for me. I have to think about what aspects of goddesses are positive and important and how I want to incorporate that into my own life.

Bibliography:

1. The Journey of Isis  from Egyptian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie (1907).
2. Britomart the Faerie Queen  from Stories from the Faerie Queene by Mary Macleod, with drawings by A. G. Walker (1916).
3. The Japanese mythology unit from the un-textbook, taken from The Romance of Old Japan by E. W. Champney and F. Champney (1917).

Possible Styles:

• Interviews
• For this style, each story would be an interview with the goddess who we'd be learning from. The site would be set up like a self-help blog/magazine and would literally give a voice to each different woman but would connect the stories together because they'd be interviews with attached articles written by a writer who hopes to change her chaotic, unfulfilled life. The writer would have her own story which I think would really pull the stories together and make readers connect with the writing. 
• Narratives with instructions for how to integrate teachings into your individual life
• This storytelling style would be written more like a self help novel or book with chapters and third-person stories. I would use lots of pictures and diagrams as well as some possible "quotes" from the women being featured. It would be a pretty simple style but would allow for continuity in my project. It is probably a little bit of a cop out, because it's not a difficult way to write but I think it would still be a lot of fun and would make it easy to read for the other people in the class that would have to read and critique it. 
• World traveler
• This style would be written like a scrapbook/travel journal with lots of pictures from the places the women come from as well as art from those places. It would be a coming of age tale of sorts; a story about a woman who decides to go on a trip around the world to find herself and learn the type of woman she wants to be. It would be enlightening for her and would include an over-arching story about the female narrator.
• Writings from the goddesses
• This would be written as if each story was a letter from the woman being featured. Each would tell her story and what she thinks we could learn from her experience. They would each be written differently to try and show the personality of each woman. After each letter would an author's note of sorts that gives my learning and tips for how to interpret and integrate each goddess's story and teachings.