So I'm reading through my rough draft for the first time, marking all the things I want to change with pen, when I stumbled upon something towards the end of the book. It was just one word, but it caught my attention:
blarg
Written just like that, in a paragraph entirely of its own. No capitalization or punctuation. It had nothing to do with the story or dialogue or... anything, really. But it's in there, and I definitely wrote it. It's also in the first printed draft that I packaged for the girl the book's dedicated to, who's probably scratching her head over it just like I am.
Thing is, I have no memory of writing it, nor do I have any idea as to what idea I was trying to convey.
You have to understand... by that point, the birthday deadline was looming, and I was up writing around 5,000 words a night on top of a full-time job. I was hip-deep in madness and exhaustion. I was probably seeing leprechauns dance across my computer screen at the time. Playing the bagpipes while dancing naked in the streets were most likely distinct possibilities to my fried brain that night.
Still, when I read it just now in my first read-through of the rough draft, I burst out laughing. It's definite proof that writing and insanity are one and the same. Don't let anyone tell you differently.
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BLARG.... HAHAHAHA.
ReplyDeletei only imagined it and i laughed out loud. it's like when one accidentally writes out the word "comma" instead of actually putting a','.... only yours shows a bit more of what was on your mind i guess! frustrated much?
I must've been frustrated when I wrote it, but I can't remember for sure!
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of the comma thing. Have you been victim of it?