When the Story Beckons...

Who needs sleep? Well, I do.



But when the story is keeping me awake, I have to write it or I'll keep thinking about it over and over, trying to "remember" it for when I wake. Which can have disastrous consequences. In other words, I don't recall anything I thought of once I wake. Or, I don't ever sleep, and still can't remember what I was thinking of.



So what happens when the story hits in the middle of the night?







I see full scenes.



Sometimes it just happens. Last night, I woke from a nightmare and couldn't quit thinking about work and whatnot, and couldn't get back to sleep. So I forced myself to think about a scene in The Winged Fae I needed to write.



And that's when it happened.



I can stare at my computer screen every minute I have free from work and not get anything written. So sometimes I just have to get away from the computer and brainstorm, and then if it comes to me, I begin to write it down by long hand.



Which is why I'm up really early typing my notes up now.



Well, actually, I never got back to sleep.



It's really a major scene, the turning point in the story. I need to write more that leads up to it. And flesh it out more, but I actually wrote the whole scene--9 pages long. :)



Did it come to me in a dream? Absolutely not. I was fully awake, sort of. Now I'm even less so.



:)



Hope you have a terrific day!!! I've got to run in to do a physical screening, something the city does once a year, and then I'm off on vacation time and I think I'll take a nap! Unless...I think of another scene...



I told you the fae are mischievous!



Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

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