MAY WRITING EXPERIENCE
Time to Meet Your Brave Self
Writers, face your fears and step forward — A follow-up to week 2
What in the world does the hero’s journey monomyth have to do with the May Writing Experience?
In a literary sense, we can follow the in the footsteps of our well-known fantasy stories and heroes. You might think of Bilbo Baggins’s unlikely adventure in The Hobbit, or Harry Potter of the Harry Potter series or Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz. Or maybe you think of lesser-known stories such as: Harvey Swift’s adventure in The Thief of Always by Clive Barker (an awesome darker fantasy, which I will begin teaching about next week with my 5th graders!)
What do these characters all have in common? They all start in their ordinary world, and an adventure calls to them, comes to them, lands in their lap, or all of a sudden they’re on an adventure because something needs to change in their ordinary world or life or psyche. Really, all stories start this way.
So here we are, writers, at the beginning of this story. We are writers in an increasingly competitive writers’ world. Something is calling us to improve on this ordinary place. Maybe we want to improve our writing skills, meet like-minded people, express ourselves, discover who we are meant to be, heal…
