Foreverland and Halfskin to Continue...
There's a creative window that opens during sleep.
I think it has something to do with shuttering the conscious mind and letting the subconscious run wild. I find some of my best writing solutions occur in the twilight before falling asleep. If the conditions are right, I'll lay there with a storyline (or other problem). More often than not, answers appear and I remember them come morning.
A good one happened the other night.
It's not exactly enlightenment or genius. In fact, the idea was so simple I even wondered how I didn't see it before and figured the time just wasn't right.
I finished the FOREVERLAND and HALFSKIN trilogies a few years ago. Since then I continued writing in the Claus Universe (Ronin, Book 6 is on the way), finished a Drayton novel and began the Maze series. I'm almost completely done with Ronin and about a third of the way through book 2 rough draft in the Maze series. Then it hits me last night.
Foreverland and Halfskin aren't finished.
In a flash of insight, I saw how the characters in both stories should not only continue but crossover. I have a lot of ground to cover before I start digging in and not sure where I'll start, but I've seen the future. My worlds are born. I don't need to make more. I just need to see how far they go.
FOREVERLANDHALFSKINSOCKET GREENY MAZE CLAUSDRAYTON
(Side note. I had entered the twilight of sleep a few nights ago when I heard and saw a girl at the side of my bed. She whispered my name and I was wide awake. I believe twilight is a strange state for the brain, when thoughts are more vivid than normal waking and be mistaken for something else. But full confession, I was a little freaked out.)
I think it has something to do with shuttering the conscious mind and letting the subconscious run wild. I find some of my best writing solutions occur in the twilight before falling asleep. If the conditions are right, I'll lay there with a storyline (or other problem). More often than not, answers appear and I remember them come morning.
A good one happened the other night.
It's not exactly enlightenment or genius. In fact, the idea was so simple I even wondered how I didn't see it before and figured the time just wasn't right.
I finished the FOREVERLAND and HALFSKIN trilogies a few years ago. Since then I continued writing in the Claus Universe (Ronin, Book 6 is on the way), finished a Drayton novel and began the Maze series. I'm almost completely done with Ronin and about a third of the way through book 2 rough draft in the Maze series. Then it hits me last night.
Foreverland and Halfskin aren't finished.
In a flash of insight, I saw how the characters in both stories should not only continue but crossover. I have a lot of ground to cover before I start digging in and not sure where I'll start, but I've seen the future. My worlds are born. I don't need to make more. I just need to see how far they go.
FOREVERLANDHALFSKINSOCKET GREENY MAZE CLAUSDRAYTON
(Side note. I had entered the twilight of sleep a few nights ago when I heard and saw a girl at the side of my bed. She whispered my name and I was wide awake. I believe twilight is a strange state for the brain, when thoughts are more vivid than normal waking and be mistaken for something else. But full confession, I was a little freaked out.)
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