The Girl Who Cried Myth
I've always loved myself a good myth. I thought that they used cute little theatrics to teach us good lessons. For example, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," taught me from a very young age that lying was not okay because it ruins your credibility with other people. Those are the only myths I knew about really, the only ones that popped into my head. When I heard I had to write a myth, I thought it was going to lean towards the easy side of things. Boy was I wrong. I had no idea how much history actually had to go with a myth, especially if you're basing it off something that already exists. I thought picking something I loved like Harry Potter might make it easy. However when it was time to actually put the myth together, I had to consider what already happens in the Harry Potter Universe. I couldn't just change everything and make it a whole different tale because that felt disingenuous. I figured creating the myth about a "why"and "how" to somethin...