QUERY - Acrostic Poetry for Procrastinators
Do you remember acrostic poems? This is an easy variety of poetry for grade school kids,
with each line starting from a letter in a word or phrase. I have queries on the brain since I set a
goal to complete ten this month.
As of midnight last night I had done two. I seem to have forgotten how difficult queries
are (or how difficult I make them...)
You may be saying, "Why not work on a query now, fair
maiden?" But alas, procrastinating
with an acrostic poem is too delicious of an option. Plus I am quite certain a little break for
creativity will unleash my productivity for the rest of the day. The 10 marshmallows I just ate will also contribute their fair share.
Quite
Ugly
Editing
Rarely gets
Yes.
Quality writing
Urges
Editors to
Request
Your ms.
Quizzical looks
Unfortunately
End with
Rewriting
Your query.
Questioning the need
Uses
Energy and
Runs
You down.
Quit
Using
Excuses.
Really,
You just need to finish
the query.
Aye, caramba! Reminds me of my attempt to write stand up comedy for writers... Now off to QUERY!
Thanks for that bit of whimsey and even more for the call to action at the end. Maybe a query race is in order.
ReplyDeleteGame on Lori. Game on.
DeleteHysterical! And a girl after my own heart...there is nothing like procrastination to bring out the creativity!
ReplyDeleteAlways works! I had to seriously get creative with "Q" words - harder than I thought.
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