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Glop in the Mind
Posted on August 25, 2003 in Anxiety Book of Days Writing Groups
Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.
Today’s topic: Write about the morning after.
The morning after that I need to write about hasn’t happened yet. I’m still feeling woozy from counseling my friend and the writing critique group. A night’s rest takes the amorphous emotions, restrains the bouncing pseudopods, and gives them an advanced form. There are many things that I need to assimilate and refine from this evening: my concern about the friend; my queasy, wet-rag uneasiness at having to act as if the laughter about my story that broke out at times was ok; my sublimated anger when people missed an important plot detail and delivered criticisms as if I hadn’t provided the information; the loneliness I felt when I drove home, wondering if I’d upset people too much; and, at last, the comfort of eating a chocolate mint bar.
That’s the kind of glop flowing all over my psyche. Only rest will contain it so that I can extract the lessons of the essence.
What I will do when I wake up, what I will be thinking about — that depends on what happens the rest of this evening and what the weather is like in the morning.
Want to participate? First either get yourself a copy of A Writer’s Book of Days by Judy Reeves or read these guidelines. Then either check in to see what the prompt for the day is or read along in the book.
Tomorrow’ topic/prompt: Write about what has yet to happen.
