I hate when dreams make sense.<\/p>\n
There’s this bizarre phenomenon that occurs sometimes wherein I dream about one of my story projects as the story is happening and it’s all very real<\/i>. It doesn’t usually have the same cracked-out elements of a typical dream, things make sense<\/i>. While things tend to be slightly different<\/i> than how they’re being written in reality, they play out in the dream in a way that isn’t all that unfathomable.<\/p>\n
It kind of creeps me out.<\/p>\n
I had a dream about my latest project last night. When I woke up from the dream, I had a kind of, “Sonofabitch<\/i>!” moment. Because this is how I handle new ideas. It manifested a whole new character and the potential for a subplot that I would have never come up with otherwise. I’d have to make a few changes to some existing plans, but I haven’t invested too much into planning those parts just yet. It wouldn’t be that much work to make the change. It would add a layer of conflict to the main character that she seems to be lacking as is. I just don’t know if it’s the right kind of conflict. I guess I’ll have to play around with things and see what I come up with.<\/p>\n
I suppose there’s some sort of irony in a dream<\/i> throwing a wrench into the plans of a story that was spawned from another dream<\/a><\/b> in the first place. You’d think I was on drugs. I mean illegal<\/i> ones.<\/p>\n In the meantime, I’m still struggling with starting<\/i> the story itself structure-wise. Oh I’ve got pages and pages<\/i> of dialogue and random scenes, but a solid beginning? Pfft! Who needs that?<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hate when dreams make sense. There’s this bizarre phenomenon that occurs sometimes wherein I dream about one of my story projects as the story is happening and it’s all very real. It doesn’t usually have the same cracked-out elements of a typical dream, things make sense. While things tend to be slightly different than how they’re being written in reality, they play out in the dream in a way that isn’t all that unfathomable…. Keep reading…Dreamweaver…part two…<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,12,131],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-endeavors","category-this-is-my-brain-and-welcome-to-it","category-writing","category-writing-the-older-man","tag-227","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6859,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/6859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}