Times like this !!!
It is time like this that I wish I had a writing buddy! I had a dream early this morning and have not been able to stop writing since I got up, made coffee and sat down in my chair. The coffee has long since gone cold and the words are flying onto the page.
I also did something totally out of character for me. I grabbed a pen and before I started I wrote out twenty-one individual paragraphs of the story to follow. From beginning to end I have it in an outline! I NEVER do that. It happened so fast I could not get it down quick enough.
Now I am just transcribing it from my head to the page. The dream woke me up. At first all I wanted to do was forget it as fast I could. I was in it and something bad had happened to me that caused me to be left alone in a store and soon found myself on the floor being asked if I was all right by a strange woman. From there all I can remember is the feeling of being rolled over and put on a gurney.
I was in a fix. I could feel the dread as I also realized that whoever this woman was had saved me from being hurt even more. The next part of the dream I was in her car and she was taking me to her home. Boy oh boy was I glad that it was only a dream!
Don’t you just love it when that happens? You wake up and poof! You are out of the situation!
But then the dream turned into this complete story. I know this sounds peculiar even to me. Usually I get this really great idea and then have to fill in the rest. I see all the characters and it is as if they are writing themselves. (I promise there is nothing but cold coffee in my cup.)
What makes this even more amazing is I am already working on two other books that are nearly writing themselves and I hava to keep jumping form one to the other in order to not forget where each book is going. This one has completely taken over my life today. It isn’t going to wait on being written.
Hmm, now I am wondering what I ate before I went to bed last night? (She said, Grinning.)
I’m not complaining mind you. I’ll take them any way I can get them, it is just a lot to try and create all at once. My brain is swimming. Sometimes I think we can have spurts of highly creative energy. Now I need a burst of energy to get all this written. I look at the clock and it in
Has anyone else had this happen to them? I can’t believe I am some sort of artistic savant. It probably was the high blood pressure pill and swigs of Orange Juice at
Anyway I am going to blog this and get up and take my trash down the hall and check the mail. I need to give not only my brain a quick rest but my numb bottom as well.
There I go again, sharing too much FYI.
2 comments:
Amamzing. Keep writing!!
Some days are like that. I start writing something, perhaps with a goal of writing 1,000 words. After 30 minutes I might be at 50 or 100 words. Very few seem to make their way to the keyboard and screen. But then the writing flows. An hour or two later I check and I've written 1,500 words, seemingly effortlessly.
Write on.
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