Several weeks ago I had this convoluted dream. I was yanked from sleep by Bob’s alarm so I don’t know where it ended and when I gained some semblance of coherence I thought to myself, “I seriously need to quit smoking crack before bed.” As I drifted in and out of sleep as Bob got ready for work that day, I mulled over the details of that dream, most of which escape me now, and the thought crossed my mind—“I wonder if I could turn that into a story?”<\/p>\n
It wouldn’t be the first time I tried something ridiculous like that. There have been quite a few story ideas in the past that have stemmed from something that happened in a dream. Most of which end up having little to nothing to do with the actual dream in the end, it just takes a spark of inspiration to get the snowball rolling.<\/p>\n
I pushed the notion aside, however, as it seemed a little too…cracked…even for me…and went about my scatter-brained business. But seeing as how I’ve been dwelling on the business of writing<\/i> so much as of late, that cracked idea kept coming back to poke me in the side of the brain, quite frequently. And the more I thought about it, the less cracked it seemed. If I changed this<\/i>, if I adjusted that<\/i>, and with just the right character here<\/i> I just might have something. If I could figure out just that right character<\/i> maybe I’ll work on that story.<\/p>\n
I figured out that character.<\/p>\n
I wrote twelve pages of dialogue in one day.<\/p>\n
I don’t know exactly how much of it is really usable<\/i> dialogue. But I wrote it<\/i>. And I wrote it in one day<\/i>. That right there is an accomplishment. Now I’m faced with the dilemma of lining up the right grouping of characters and putting this all into proper story form. I have a general outline of a story in my head. I’m just really struggling on where to start<\/i> it at this point. I guess I’ll have to resort to what I do best and lay out an unnecessarily, painfully detailed timeline to get it figured out. It wouldn’t be one of my projects without a myriad of side-story, timelines, floor plans, back-story, and other useless detail that only I will ever know about the characters.<\/p>\n
Because that’s how I roll.<\/p>\n
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