I have crazy psycho dreams. This, I’ve already confessed in prior posts. Lately, my dreams have involved writing. Because.I’m.Obsessed. Possessed?
In my dreams, thoughts gush from the tip of my favorite pen, flowing and filling blank pages. In my dreams, I type fluently with fingertips on home keys, tap-tap-tap, as automatic as blinking. In my dreams, I edit, slash, replace, rack my brain for precise words that combine to form a magical sentence. Prose that flows likes a favorite melody. Words that sing.
In my most recent dream, I gazed into my mother’s magical magnifying mirror, the mirror she drags on every road trip. (The mirror that weighs fifteen pounds.) I discovered my eyebrows were unruly, in desperate need of plucking. A few wild stray hairs grew here and there, undetected by blurred fifty-year-old vision. Undetected without help from the hulking amplifier.
As I studied these shapeless brows, I noticed each hair was not a hair at all. Each hair was a word. A teeny-weeny minuscule group of letters. Why had I never noticed?
As I carefully tugged microscopic words from between my eyebrows, I wondered, did other people realized these hairs were adjectives and adverbs?
With my tweezers, I plucked…
very
suddenly
the
small
important
was
just
seem
awesome…
Growing off to the side, I removed…
interesting.
Stray hairs. Stray words.
When I finished, I admired my clean, evenly shaped eyebrows.
I’ve been writing word by word, bird by bird, bean by bean, hair by hair… I’ve been editing word by word, bird by bird, you get the picture.
Today, I shall take a break and go outside to play.
talya
Musical Pairing:
I Can See Clearly Now, Johnny Nash
“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
― Dr. Seuss
Yes, I think you need a day off. Go play. Sounds like you are about to lose it. Your Mom, B
Go play! We can’t have you going around without any brows!
yeah, what Colene said! And speaking of 50-yar-old vision, I hope you read Luann in yesterday’s DMN comics! It speaks to the same …
Girl, I be liking the way you be thinking, another awesome one!
haha…Very cool…The part of your dream where you find words in your eyebrows would make a great Surrealist painting, entitled something like, I don’t know, “The Browzing Writer,” maybe?=) I have to admit that you do remind me of me in how I get obsessed with projects and how these obsessions tend to invade my dreams!=) And I’m no interpreter of dreams, but maybe you are obsessing over the pursuit of hirsute words when you should relax and just be your own wonderful self.=) With that said, I think this is an incredible piece of creative writing.
I agree Tim. theBAT
I agree with Tim, too! PL
Powerful and introspective entry, writers would do themselves a huge favor to read this multiple times.
Thank you:)
This made me smile. You are so creative!
Have you ever read Ken Rand’s The Ten Percent Solution?
I think you would find it interesting.
Never heard of it but I’ll check it out.
PLAY!!!!!!! SO SO CONCUR..do this EVERY day on my day off..and around the last hour of my 12 hr shift…its difficult to do in a trauma center, nevertheless..if its in your heart…it leaks out..like on this page..LOVE this BLOG! 🙂
Read this again…….and yes……. I LOVE YOUR PLAYING!! PLUCK ON!!! hehe yes i hear the music now!!!! ((hugs)) you must come visit me!!
This was great insight, Talya. Now you can play 🙂
Stephen King said, “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” Does that mean you had hell between your eyes?
http://joycelansky.blogspot.com
Apparently so Joyce! And I agree with Mr. King.
Very, very cool blog! I love words!
Thank you!
The mind does baffle, if you’re a writer, at least! When all seems quiet and calm, suddenly characters erupt in my head and a story or a paragraph for the book, simply must be written!
The random words, between the eyebrows, hmmmm, maybe just needed to written before your busy mind could let them rest.
❤
Yes even when we aren’t writing, we are writing in our heads.
Yes! Play! And always remain on the lookout for your words, because as you clearly know, those little suckers can be anywhere!
ha very true:))
I liked this one the first time around, and again now. 🙂
Thank you Gary!
Loved it. 🙂 Just like eyebrow maintenance, editing hurts but must be done. I recently posted a picture on my facebook that said “Don’t let anyone with bad eyebrows tell you sh*t about life”. Lol! Clean eyebrows, good editing…essential. 😉
Thank you – love your facebook picture:))
Still funny the second time I read this! I have the weirdest dreams too… 🙂