We just finished reading The Odyssey in English. I enjoyed it. Now we have a project to do and I'm all strung out!
So, my teacher had me pick out a mythological beast of my choice from some slips of paper. I chose Mothman. If I had known what the assignment entailed I would have chosen something easier to write about. She wants us to create a children's book detailing yet another encounter that Odysseus makes on his way home.
At first, I was excited. Now, I'm just exhausted.
Mothman, if you didn't know, was a creature spotted during the 60's that people took as a warning of some sort. The Silver Bridge collapsed once the sightings peaked. So, the general agreement is that Mothman is a soothsayer of sorts; however, anyone who has ever read the Odyssey (abridged or not) will know that Odysseus was warned about many of the creatures beforehand.
I've set it after he leaves Calypso's island, Ogygia. The story is done. I just need to draw the pictures. Sigh. I'm just tired, I guess. Overworked.
My main problem was having the monster, well, not be a monster. The teacher wanted for us to make the monster not overwhelmingly terrifying (I secretly think that's ********, pardon my French.) I could handle that. Mothman doesn't do anything terrifying except make any person who sees him mentally unstable. Odysseus isn't though, because he's the epic hero.
She also has set a rule against plainly killing off the monster. I can deal with that.
I'm used to writing for adults, though. It took my two days to write a children's book that should have taken me half an hour.
Oh well. It's all over now. They've made a deal and I'm done with that whole mess.
Now, all that's left is drawing. Shudder.
Vale! (Pronounced Wallay. Latin for Goodbye!)