Tuesday, June 29, 2010

TROPIC OF PANTSER

Clarity!
Oh, sweet clarity!
It came to me yesterday, late morning…
I was sitting in my office fretting…
(ha! this is the first time I’ve used the word fret )
My mind felt like a wet dish rag…
Saturated with murky, good-for-nothing thoughts.
Just when I was going to throw myself on the bed and…
Have a good pity party…
Take a nap…
Or just chill for a bit…
Out of my mind popped a clear thought.
Turn on the air conditioning!
It’s 98 friggin’ degrees in this office!
You’re sweating like a pig!
I can’t function with all this heat and humidity!
You may like to feel like you’re in the tropics…
But I don’t!
And so I went downstairs and turned on the air.
Within 20 minutes…
The bloating subsided in my swollen fingers…
The sweat dried up…
And my mind got clear.
I then came up with several pitches for RWA Nationals and…
The final version of my query and…
A “to do” list…
And did them all!
I also made a "Note to Self”…
Heat and humidity in the jungle—good…
Heat and humidity in office—not good.
Just then my mind popped out another thought…
This writer's retreat
That you're going to build In the jungle in Akumal
You are planning to have air conditioning, aren't you?
NOTE TO WRITERS:  Yes, there will be air conditioning.

Always, Em-Musing
NOTE TO NON-WRITERS: Pantser is a writer who writes the story as it unfolds before them, with no real plan or direction.

1 comment:

Joanne said...

I'm glad to see your "to-do" list ;) Hope it helped!

It's been so very hot and humid here that it's difficult to do much of anything without a/c turned on. I think a good old fashioned scorcher of a summer is ahead of us.