Trapped In A Car

Tempest
Trapped in the car Tablet on
Trapped in the car
Sundown makes it hard
Should be working, should be writing
Must be windy, car is moving
Rising action isn’t flowing
This plot is just not going

Write something!
Work with me!
Write something!
Anything!
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light, At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light.

Like, you could write,
“So, how does it feel to know
That you and I are both–"


SPOKEN

ECC
Hey.

Tempest
Yeah?

ECC
What do you want to do?

Tempest
Oh, I don't know.

SINGING

ECC
I know a game that’s kind of fun to play
A wording game for folks like… you know
Could be fun

Tempest
Hey Dad, I'm busy now.

SPOKEN

ECC
Yeah, right

SINGING

Tempest
Trapped in the car
This is fine
Trapped in the car
Can’t see, darkened sky
Here’s a plot that I could borrow
There’s something that I could edit
Damn this middle bit is mushy
I need my words by tomorrow!

Write something!
Work with me!
Write something!
Anything!
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light,
At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light.

Doesn't matter what you write
Just don’t let him talk anymore

ECC
There was a time
In college
My first year there
On my own
I wrote comics and poems
They were bad
Where are they now?

Fourteen years old
Star Trek fanfic
It was hard
Lots of folks tried to write, you know
For them, it was a thing they outgrew
But I always knew

Tempest
Dad, me too!
Since, like, nine, I guess
I’ve been writing poems and prose
I felt absurd when I did
I really tried to deny my writing sometimes
But I was like you, Dad
Me too.

EC
Spock and Kirk

Tempest
Dad?

ECC
Spock and Kirk

Tempest
Dad?

SPOKEN

ECC
Hey, did I mention that new project I've taken on?
You've seen it, Eli, that old house out on Route 150?
It's been standing empty forty, fifty years at least.

SINGING

Tempest
Trapped in the car
Stop! Too fast!
Trapped in the car
This plot didn’t last
This plot point!
This is where it has to happen!
There will not be other chances.
There's a moment I'm forgetting
Where I know what I’m doing.

Write something!
Work with me!
Write something!
Anything!
At the light,
At the light.

This can't be my last—

SPOKEN

ECC
Well, we’re finally here. It's earlier than I thought. Are you coming in?

SINGING

Tempest
Trapped in the car
But I did not write