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!

Comments

  1. Thanks for that bit of whimsey and even more for the call to action at the end. Maybe a query race is in order.

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  2. Hysterical! And a girl after my own heart...there is nothing like procrastination to bring out the creativity!

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    1. Always works! I had to seriously get creative with "Q" words - harder than I thought.

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