{"id":654,"date":"2010-12-08T03:12:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T09:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2024-02-17T21:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T03:07:46","slug":"guess-i-needed-something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/guess-i-needed-something-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess I needed something new…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an odd dream one night last week that left me wondering if I could somehow use a piece of it in a story. It jabbed me in the side of the brain constantly for a few days and the next thing I knew, I had one of my “Never See the Light of Day” projects sitting in front of me. One of those story lines that is so ridiculous I would never let anyone else see it. But I have so much fun writing it and I’m actually writing<\/i>…why the hell not write it?<\/p>\n

Three days later I’m staring at eighteen pages of dialogue and feeling mildly accomplished.<\/p>\n

It used to be when I came up with these inane plot lines, I couldn’t bring myself to say anything to anyone<\/i> about it. Save for the occasional convoluted, cryptic blog post. All for fear of people thinking I’m some kind of whack job. Now? I can tell Bob all about it and HE<\/i> doesn’t think I’m weird.<\/p>\n

Well.<\/p>\n

He does.<\/p>\n

But that has nothing to do with my writing.<\/p>\n

He knew I was working on a new idea and as I was tapping away on a few lines today, he inquired about my progress. Then he asked about the subject matter. My initial reaction was hesitation…and embarrassment…and then I realized, it didn’t matter. As soon as I told him a few particulars he asked, “Was this inspired by your dream?”<\/p>\n

It’s like he KNOWS ME.<\/p>\n

We are connected at the brain.<\/p>\n

I love us.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/td>\nIn the Middle
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I had an odd dream one night last week that left me wondering if I could somehow use a piece of it in a story. It jabbed me in the side of the brain constantly for a few days and the next thing I knew, I had one of my “Never See the Light of Day” projects sitting in front of me. One of those story lines that is so ridiculous I would never let… Keep reading…Guess I needed something new…<\/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":[78,7,121,6,12,127],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blame-caboose","category-creative-endeavors","category-goddammit-joel","category-this-is-my-brain-and-welcome-to-it","category-writing","category-writing-freelancer-crack","tag-227","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","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=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11232,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/11232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}