Prepping for NaNoWriMo
I have MUCH more at stake this November than making my 50,000 words or not. I signed up and was selected as a Municipal Liaison (ML) for Montana for the 2014 NaNoWriMo. And since I am the only one anywhere near Helena.....(evil laugh) it's all mine.
One of the things I need to do in my duties is to plan a few meet ups and write ins, an opening and closing event, and generally, get this area ready for a fun month of writing our hearts out. I am very, very lucky in that I have the support of the library and our Adult Services librarian, so a lot of my finding out where to go and who to talk to is already done.
The other half of my 'job' in November is my own writing. I think I might have an idea of what I am going to write about this year, but it is still swirling around in my brain with a couple of other ideas.
What I do know is that I have to send my "Inner Critic" on vacation during November. And one way I thought about do so was to actually create a tangible picture of said critic. I was going to draw my critic and have it where I could put it away for the month of November. And I wondered what he/she would look like. Then I remembered this character from "Monster Inc."
One of the things I need to do in my duties is to plan a few meet ups and write ins, an opening and closing event, and generally, get this area ready for a fun month of writing our hearts out. I am very, very lucky in that I have the support of the library and our Adult Services librarian, so a lot of my finding out where to go and who to talk to is already done.
The other half of my 'job' in November is my own writing. I think I might have an idea of what I am going to write about this year, but it is still swirling around in my brain with a couple of other ideas.
What I do know is that I have to send my "Inner Critic" on vacation during November. And one way I thought about do so was to actually create a tangible picture of said critic. I was going to draw my critic and have it where I could put it away for the month of November. And I wondered what he/she would look like. Then I remembered this character from "Monster Inc."
Yep, Roz..that gravelly voice, paper pushing pain in Mike's ass. See, she is even holding a pencil. After I grabbed this image from the site, I realized she looked an awful like Mrs. Sutton, one of the senior English teachers in high school.
Mrs. Sutton taught the 'regular' English classes - in other words, non-honors classes. I sat through two years of her classes because I was her teacher's assistant. She was also the journalism sponsor and as editor of the paper - there I was. And I can tell you, she was much, much tougher than the Honors English classes I was in. She taught The Canterbury Tales in the Old English and you had to not only discuss it, but memorize and recite in front of the class. I sweated for those kids in her class. But she had the glasses, a dowager's hump and gray hair, pulled back in a bun. Tall and skinny, she was Roz.
I have to send her on vacation in November for two reasons. The first, I really don't want her correcting my English while I am writing whatever it is I am writing. Secondly, I don't want her option of the events which come together by me. I have enough 'everybody is going to laugh at/hate me' anyway without her two cents worth.
So "Roz Sutton", Inner Critic, is going on vacation in November. Probably someplace warm.
I suggest the Antarctic, hear is close to their summer.
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