Writing Advice from My Dreams.

I am working on my next book and was feeling frustrated at how slow Ive been going recently. I admit I have also been trying to force myself forward. But then, recently, something happened that shifted my perspective.

One morning, I woke up from a dream with a very clear image in my head of a hen sitting on top of an egg. I didnt remember anything about the dream except this after-image. But it was so clear that I realized that that is what I was doing.

I was incubating the rest of my...