The Fly and Writing

There's a fly in my office

It keeps circling my head

I got out the fly swatter

So I can whack it instead.

Right after I got back in my office

I just kept swinging

Whichever way I can

Just to see if I can get lucky and strike it somehow.

It made me think of a metaphor 

Of my writing style

My focus and my goal

I just get started and just get working.

I didn't get the fly

And perhaps I'm being hard on myself

But sometimes I feel like

I'm wandering aimlessly

Just like I did when swatting at the fly

Just hoping to get lucky.

...and of all the things I can write about

I choose this.

All of the writing coaches

Say "just write"

Get in the habit of writing.

I get so bogged down in perfecting it.

I miss out on writing.

Here's a start...

I didn't get the fly

But I know that it will eventually stop

I will eventually get my goal of being a published author.

Being a perfectionist

Makes me think I'm doing it wrong

But how can it be wrong

If I'm just getting the writing done.