Writerings

He starts writing in hope as much as in expectation

Is that too cliche?

Should that have an acute accent?

Spelcheck later

He puts pen to paper

Or rather

He puts fingers to keys

He starts another sentence with the word ‘he’

He’ll fix that later in the editing

The words come out in bursts

Slowly

Plodding

One

At

A

Time

Pulling teeth

Then a sudden flourish as if writing was as simple as running down a steep hill

As simple as a log floating down a fast flowing river

Except there are no endless hills

And no endless rivers

He must climb the next one

Or take a tangent

What is over here in this diversion?

A new character?

A subplot?

A literary allusion?

A treatise on metafiction?

A distraction

But back on track

Barrelling towards the ending

The end in sight

To stick or to twist

To subvert or to obey

To

Just

Get

It

Done

He begins to edit