Showing posts with label the mind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the mind. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Dreaming into Work or The Muse Doesn't Do Your Work

Another writer asked how important dreams are to one's work-in-progress.

I've gotten a couple of stories from my dreams.

If I'm not stressed out and sleep well, my dreams are often sequential, full color, with a cast of characters.

I find this crazy. Some may find this manah from Heaven. It probably isn't in that the work of putting together a viable writing project is still involved.

I have two comic WIPs, a SF novelette, and a Fantasy novella strictly from dreams alone. And still working out each and every one of them to this day.

I've gotten a couple of stories from dreams. If I'm not stressed out and sleep well, my dreams are often sequential, full color, with a cast of characters. It's crazy.

Well, we were asked what was one's craziest dream. I have plenty, as Disney's Ariel would say.

One in which I was chased by robotic dogs.
Another, I witnessed a naiad (I think that's a freshwater nymph?) carried off from her swampland lake by her love interest, a centaur.

Both yielded two story drafts and their accompanying artwork. There's more but that will be for other posts.

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