It Came To Me In A Dream
Literally.
In all of the books I've written, all the stories I've tried to break but haven't written yet, an idea came to me in a dream for the first time. And not a new idea for a story, or a character, but the solution to a story problem I already had. The context was... weird... but it was the answer I've been banging my head against the wall for weeks trying to figure out. That's crazy! Does that mean I'm a real writer? I'm dreaming about a missing piece of an outline now? The dream didn't even finish! I woke up (it was still dark) and spent the next hour writing things down so I wouldn't forget them. One solution spawned a dozen other ideas, and huge swaths of the story unlocked themselves.
I don't think I'm going to tell you what it was though, because when you read the story it will seem super obvious that that was the solution all along, and the curtain will have been pulled back on the wizard and all my powers will evaporate.
In all of the books I've written, all the stories I've tried to break but haven't written yet, an idea came to me in a dream for the first time. And not a new idea for a story, or a character, but the solution to a story problem I already had. The context was... weird... but it was the answer I've been banging my head against the wall for weeks trying to figure out. That's crazy! Does that mean I'm a real writer? I'm dreaming about a missing piece of an outline now? The dream didn't even finish! I woke up (it was still dark) and spent the next hour writing things down so I wouldn't forget them. One solution spawned a dozen other ideas, and huge swaths of the story unlocked themselves.
I don't think I'm going to tell you what it was though, because when you read the story it will seem super obvious that that was the solution all along, and the curtain will have been pulled back on the wizard and all my powers will evaporate.
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