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st louder about it.)</p><p id="9fe7">Angry feels pressure from time deadlines, power imbalances, and perceived threats. Instead of running awwwaay, it wants to start a fight.</p><h2 id="865a">Jealous Monster</h2><p id="ae0d">Jealous Monster keeps a sharp lookout to see what others are doing and to feel bad if they are obviously having more fun than me. It feels like almost everyone is having more fun than me right now, so you’d think this Monster would be up at the top, but truly this Monster doesn’t have as much power over me as it wishes. Its barbs sting, but they don’t stick. Whew!</p><h2 id="db9b">Shame Monster</h2><p id="3579">Shame Monster on the other hand is doing a fine job of scaring me. Truly deep creative work is vulnerable work, and this secret voice doesn’t believe that others can love my work. Which is an important facet of my Me-ness and so not loving my work means they can’t love me according to this Monster.</p><p id="9feb">Shame Monster is always shaking out the folds of my invisibility cloak and asking me to hide with It. An important Monster in my Monster Pantheon.</p><h2 id="f136">Procrastimonster</h2><p id="afee">And finally, my most monstrous Monster that usually hides all these others is Procrastimonster. It spends its time in cahoots with Fear trying to get me to do other less important tasks rather than the vulnerable and important work at hand.</p><p id="f504">These are my Monsters, and this October I am going to turn my creative attention to them to learn all about them and to get them to the Monster Ball at the end of the month. Because they play a key role in the Storyspinner Year.</p><h2 id="5d0d">A Monster Manager</h2><p

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id="722f">Monsters have their own Storyspinner month: October. And they have their own Storyspinner Step 5. Step 5 is our super-powered call to take action, and the very best action is often a Monster Managing Move.</p><p id="0c30">As you can imagine, Monsters hate being managed.</p><p id="b264">This October I will invite my Monsters to tea with my Good Witch. She is going to brew up special potions, one for each Monster that will help my Monsters to get what they really want: my happiness.</p><p id="b46b">Surprised by that? I know I always am. These misguided Monsters are really only here to try to keep me safe. They just go about it in a monstrously mixed-up manner. Monsters hate change and are convinced that I hate it too.</p><p id="752f">My job over this month is to seek out my Monsters in their lairs and to confront their scare tactics. I’m going to be venturing into the Frightful Forest, The Pumpkin Bash, the Haunted Hotel, the Gruesome Graveyard, and the Monster Armory to face my Monsters and get them to the Monster Ball.</p><p id="e4f8">I hope you’ll join me. Monster Managing is always much more fun with friends.</p><p id="2a5c">Here’s a prompt to get us started. Which of these Monsters is your Monster-in-Chief? Fear, Angry, Jealous, Shame, or Procrastimonster? Or is it another Monster?</p><p id="21c4">Consider this your invitation to October’s Monster Ball.</p><p id="3612">Every month the Storyspinners are on a mission to Write the World. This month’s mission? Get our Five Monsters to the Monster Ball to save Halloween. We need all our reading, writing, and creating powers to do it.</p><p id="d15f">I hope you will join us.</p></article></body>

The Monster Ball

The Monsters of Fear, Anger, Jealous, & Shame are On the Prowl this October

How Not to Run Awwwaay

The Path to the Monster Ball Storyrama by the Author and Laura Knapp

Lately, I have been having a fine and furry time with my Monsters. Monsters are those voices that live inside of us and whisper sour nothings in our ears. My Monsters tend to follow one of five monstrous personalities.

Fear Monster

My main monster is Fear Monster. Fear Monster’s voice is chattering and anxious. It makes it very difficult to settle down to do good work of any kind since it is urging me to run around and do the busy work that feels productive but really isn’t going to move me forward.

Fear sabotages me by keeping me from facing those things that really need doing that can be hard. I call those hard things Monster Moves. Actions that are uncomfortable to take.

A confrontational phone call, asking for something, creating something that feels beyond my current capacity are just a few examples of Monster Moves that Fear fears.

Angry Monster

Angry Monster is standing right beside Fear Monster and roaring fiercely. It wants me to lash out at everyone and everything. It’s working on an assumption that anger and frustration will raise my energy and push me through impossible deadlines. (and secretly it's just as scared as Fear Monster, just louder about it.)

Angry feels pressure from time deadlines, power imbalances, and perceived threats. Instead of running awwwaay, it wants to start a fight.

Jealous Monster

Jealous Monster keeps a sharp lookout to see what others are doing and to feel bad if they are obviously having more fun than me. It feels like almost everyone is having more fun than me right now, so you’d think this Monster would be up at the top, but truly this Monster doesn’t have as much power over me as it wishes. Its barbs sting, but they don’t stick. Whew!

Shame Monster

Shame Monster on the other hand is doing a fine job of scaring me. Truly deep creative work is vulnerable work, and this secret voice doesn’t believe that others can love my work. Which is an important facet of my Me-ness and so not loving my work means they can’t love me according to this Monster.

Shame Monster is always shaking out the folds of my invisibility cloak and asking me to hide with It. An important Monster in my Monster Pantheon.

Procrastimonster

And finally, my most monstrous Monster that usually hides all these others is Procrastimonster. It spends its time in cahoots with Fear trying to get me to do other less important tasks rather than the vulnerable and important work at hand.

These are my Monsters, and this October I am going to turn my creative attention to them to learn all about them and to get them to the Monster Ball at the end of the month. Because they play a key role in the Storyspinner Year.

A Monster Manager

Monsters have their own Storyspinner month: October. And they have their own Storyspinner Step 5. Step 5 is our super-powered call to take action, and the very best action is often a Monster Managing Move.

As you can imagine, Monsters hate being managed.

This October I will invite my Monsters to tea with my Good Witch. She is going to brew up special potions, one for each Monster that will help my Monsters to get what they really want: my happiness.

Surprised by that? I know I always am. These misguided Monsters are really only here to try to keep me safe. They just go about it in a monstrously mixed-up manner. Monsters hate change and are convinced that I hate it too.

My job over this month is to seek out my Monsters in their lairs and to confront their scare tactics. I’m going to be venturing into the Frightful Forest, The Pumpkin Bash, the Haunted Hotel, the Gruesome Graveyard, and the Monster Armory to face my Monsters and get them to the Monster Ball.

I hope you’ll join me. Monster Managing is always much more fun with friends.

Here’s a prompt to get us started. Which of these Monsters is your Monster-in-Chief? Fear, Angry, Jealous, Shame, or Procrastimonster? Or is it another Monster?

Consider this your invitation to October’s Monster Ball.

Every month the Storyspinners are on a mission to Write the World. This month’s mission? Get our Five Monsters to the Monster Ball to save Halloween. We need all our reading, writing, and creating powers to do it.

I hope you will join us.