Lately, I’ve been having a lot of strange dreams. I don’t remember all of them when I wake up. I ought start keeping a dream journal by the bed, but it hasn’t worked too well in the past when I’ve tried it. Anyway, I had a dream the other night that’s been haunting me since. It was about a conquered kingdom, a bastard princess, slavery, romance, betrayal, and a quest to restore the kingdom—and escape when the plot was uncovered and failed.
Needless to say, there’s a lot in the actual dream that would need to be altered to make sense, because dreams don’t exactly function on logic. But it was cool, and my mind keeps twining around “What could I do with this? Hmm…”
It’s not the first time I’ve had a dream turn into a novel. I actually have the first novel in a trilogy plotted and on the backburner that was inspired by a few disconnected scenes from a dream. Really ought get back to writing that one someday.
Has anybody else had story dreams like this? What do you do?
December 19th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
All the time Nonny. The book thats coming out in April from Samhain-I dreamt the first chapter before I started to write it. And I always have weird dreams that inspire me. I’ve kept journals off and on for around 8 years. Its amazing where our dreams take us.
Yours sounds very cool btw-hope you do do something with it. I know I would read it