Get it out already!

Will has been going through a stage the last few weeks that is about to drive me to drinking. His vocabulary and ability to make sentences has grown so that listening to him describe something can drive you insane.

For instance, we recently watched the new movie Bolt and if you asked Will to describe it, this is most likely what he would say:

It's a movie. And there is this dog. And the dog's name is Bolt. And bolt is a super hero dog. Named Bolt. And he has super powers. And there is a hamster. And his name is Rhino. And Rhino the hamster is a super hamster. And Rhino the hamster has super powers. But it's only a dream. And there is a kitty. And I can't remember the kitty's name. Momma, what was the kitty's name? And the kitty has super powers.

Sure, it sounds cute here. But between every sentence he hums and haws while trying to think of the words he wants to use before he says them. So the text above will actually take 5 minutes for him to spit out. And about half way through I'm thinking, "Get it out already!"

And EVERY conversation we have now is this same way. Fifty to one hundred times a day. I know that any time a person learns something new they start out with little finesse when using it; it only improves as they continue to exercise the new art/craft. Doesn't make it less irritating.

However, a humbling realization today does.

I've spent the last week trying to cut out all the back story and information dumps in one of my chapters. Trying to trim down the excess and make it action packed and fast paced. I wonder if the people who did the critique and noticed the overflow of information were saying to themselves, "Get it out already!"