Wool-gathering

Also puttering,
pottering
meandering
lollygagging
dilly-dallying
shilly-shallying
day-dreaming
dawdling
hemming and hawing
to-ing and fro-ing
moseying
musing
mooning
noodling
brooding
puzzling
mulling
ruminating
dabbling
tinkering
idling
trifling
see-sawing
pipe-dreaming
stargazing

That is what I am doing this week.

It is an essential part of the writing process, but it must look pretty strange from outside. The tangible evidence of wool-gathering is buying and reading books on unusual subjects; collecting odds and ends that hold no meaning to anyone but yourself; napping; staring into space; having bizarre and vivid dreams; letting sentences trail off into vague nothings; forgetting some things and being unusually awake to others; wandering (mentally and physically).

I have learned that this mood, while sometimes frustrating, is necessary. It is a sign that one of the many seeds that gleefully burrow their way into your brain on a daily basis has started to sprout and turn into something altogether more interesting. It is an incubation process. I'm interested to see what exactly is going to emerge.