spiraling

spi·ral·ing /ˈspī-rəl-ēŋ/ verb

  1. moving in a spiral course. causing to have a spiral shape or follow a spiral course.
  2. showing a continuous and dramatic increase. decreasing or deteriorating continuously.

Hands tapping, fingers flying over keys. Brow furrowed, shoulders hunched. Writing is art, art is pain, pain is life. Yes, yes, YES!

He’s done it. He. Has. Done. It. Completed. Kaput.

His masterpiece. His magnum opus. The best thing he will ever create, the thing he’s been working toward his whole life, his whole existence.

And yet.

Something about it is wrong. Not good enough. Unfinished. Unfinishable. At least in his current state.

He grabs hold of the sides of the keyboard and yanks, pulling it out violently, detaching it from its cord. Peer in right now, and all you would see is a haggard shadow of a man, keyboard over his head, before he SLAMS it hard into the side of the desk. Keycaps fly everywhere. Spittle flies everywhere, courtesy of his primal yell.

Breathing hard, he struts across the room to the locked set of drawers, kicking the remains of his previous attempt to the side.

Pulls out the brass key on the leather cord around his neck. Opens the top drawer.

Pulls out a fresh keyboard.

Every attempt calls for a new tool.

“rumination” – BAANDIT!