Sometimes a writer needs to just Let It Go...

I can't sing, so I'll spare you the pain of me trying to hit notes only a soprano can. Instead I'll just leave you the lyrics and you can hum along. For those who haven't seen Frozen I've embedded the clip of the song so you know the tune. I'm so sorry if you can't stop humming it. It's one of those delightful little earworms you don't mind until Day 5 when it morphs into nonsense like the lyrics below.

A Writer Let's It Go

The screen glows white in my room tonight

Not a word to be seen

A kingdom of isolation,

And it looks like I’m the Queen

My editor is howling like this swirling storm outside

Can’t keep my deadline, heaven knows I tried

Don’t let the pacing slip, don’t let the reader see

Make this character loveable as can be

Conceal the motive, don’t cheat the ending, can’t let them know

Can’t let them know!

Let it go, let it go

Can’t keep this plot line no more

Let it go, let it go

Shove that character out the door

I don’t care

What the reviews will say

Let the fear come in

The synopsis never bothered me anyway

It's funny how some distance

Makes that plot line seem so weak

And the scene I thought was important

Doesn’t speak to me at all

It’s time to see what this edit can do

To test the limits and break through

No right, no wrong, no rules for me

I’m free

Let it go, let it go

I am one with the words and rhyme

Let it go, let it go

I’m going to make this deadline

Here I sit

And here I stay

Let the words rage on

My soul pours out from my keyboard to the screen

My dreams are flying past me in a steady stream

And one thought catches me like an icy blast

I’m never going back

The past is in the past

Let it go, let it go

I will face these edits head on

Let it go, let it go

Until every flaw is gone!

Here I sit

Until the light of day

Let the words rage on

The synopsis never bothered me anyway.