Story Planning: Yamato

Okay so I'm trying to get back into the grove of this whole Story Writing thing because I'm deathly afraid of it and have been putting it off! Then I realized there was a Story Planning option and I figured that was a great way to take baby steps towards writing one! Woohoo! So my favorite story from this week was The Rescue of the Princess which features a Japanese hero (and maybe emperor??) names Yamato who dresses as a women and then tries to basically seduce his captors so that he can stab them and save his would-be-wife. Woah. I loved this story because it is so different from many of the stories I've read which often seem to find women and their sexuality damaging and sinful. I loved that this story saw it as useful (although that's probably bad too now that I'm thinking about it) and that the emperor was in no way embarrassed to be mistaken as a women - in fact it was a compliment! So for my story I thought it would be cool to modernize it, maybe take a traditionally masculine character from another mythology - probably not Greek since I think Hercules already did that - in order to really emphasize how different this story felt to me in contrast to many of the others we read. I always get nervous about doing these writings on anything other than Greek Mythology though because I know some people practice these religions - I'm a Christian myself - and I don't want to offend anyone by accident. Maybe I could do an ancient Egyptian character or another out of practice religion instead! Okay planing over next week it's story time!