Day Six. Facilitator Prep.

Note: Monica facilitated the workshop at Looking Glass Bookstore.

It seems like I should be more nervous (my Ten Days of Writing workshop meets tonight in Sellwood), but sometime around my sophomore year in high school, I stopped getting nervous before these kinds of things. Well, mostly. Maybe I'll get a strange bout of butterflies in my stomach on my way there and be an inarticulate mess all night. Boy, I hope not.

Mostly I'm just excited. I asked to facilitate at Looking Glass Bookstore because it's one of the coolest bookstores in town. It's in an old train car right next to Grand Central Bakery and right on 13^th Avenue where all the hip Sellwoodites (including lots of moms and dads with cute little kids and golden retrievers) hang out.

I love this neighborhood—my neighborhood—and am thrilled to get to write with people who like it, too. And did I mention enough participants signed up to warrant a second facilitator on the job? Our plan is to divide the group in two and facilitate the same curriculum independently. We're hoping to pull everyone together to do the 10 Things prompt at the end. It should be pretty powerful to have a couple dozen voices share their writing.