I feel like I've moved from the learning-how-to-write to the creating stage. I don't want an instructor to tell me to write about a client who recognizes her therapist is mentally ill any more. Done that assignment twice. Now I want to write about Elora, my character in my science fiction story. I want to detail how she and her robot dog fight evil and triumph. I want to know how to structure the story to follow my character, this young woman in Florida enjoying the sun, to her transformation as warrior saving the world with her beloved robot dog. The Hero's Journey course is perfect timing for me. All assignments have to do with my story. But it also has to do with my life and in that way I feel like this yellow bloom the color of sweet and tart lemons, with ruffled petals, opening up and revealing all. That's what this course is like as we study archetypes and how they play out in our lives and in our story. Who is the hero? The shapeshifter or the shadow? I told the teacher I wrote several chapters about Elora and just stopped. I thought she'd encourage me on. And she did by telling me we all stop for a reason? Was it fear or something else? She wondered. I wondered. This course will be one of self discovery as I let the story be told.
Buckle up, I whisper as I write.
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