Dreams and Novel Writing
Jul. 23rd, 2006 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alanajoliLast night I dreamed not only a novel, but a whole novel series. (Granted, I believe it was heavily influenced by Trevis Powell's upcoming novel No Hero, the amount I've been playing Knights of the Old Republic II: Sith Lords, and being in the middle of writing my second novel for White Silver Publishing. Usually when I dream a novel it's just a stand alone, and it typically has a firmer plot.)
This is my second novel dream this year, and as soon as I woke up I took down notes on everything I remembered, which involved one scene where one of the main characters stole a bunch of diamonds from the top of a merry-go-round. This, of course, is not particularly relevant to the rest of the story. The main concept behind the novels, in theory, is that the Veil between this world and another one, probably heavily influenced by magic, is extremely weak, and certain individuals see and interact with both at the same time. The overlay between the worlds is really interesting to me, as it seemed to work so that if someone was injured by warriors from behind the Veil, they would probably end up being treated both at a modern hospital and by a Veil healer, but the modern hospital workers wouldn't be able to see the wounds created behind the Veil, leaving the person completely at the mercy of Veil healing techniques and without the benefit of modern technology. I imagine that this overlap would be really difficult to make come across well, as the person interacting with both realities would be acting in both; whether they were predominantly interacting with one or the other, their body and actions would be clear in both realities. So would they be considered insane? Or would their body be able to handle dual activity, so that while acting behind the Veil, they would also be acting in the real world with responses that made sense? Possibly, people who didn't perceive the Veil would be tricked by the Veil's own properties into believing that the person was acting appropriately, even when they were not...
At any rate, the dream was quite bizarre while simultaneously being strangely coherent. The notes are interesting, and mostly, unsurprisingly for me, character centric. (Notably in the dream, I was also wandering around, doing research for these very novels that were going on simultaneously in the dream.)
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In other news, I stopped by a local book/card/candy store to find out if they might carry my novel, and I was told to come back Monday morning and see the buyer. They apparently really like to carry local authors, which I find quite exciting! I'll take them a flyer in the morning, and possibly pop over to the major independent bookstore in Shoreline Connecticut (R. J. Julia's) and see if they'll consider carrying Into the Reach as well.
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Currently Reading: Tales of the Last War, as I haven't finished it yet.
Currently Playing: Knights of the Old Republic II: Sith Lords, which promises to take me longer than the fifty odd hours I normally spend on X-box RPGs...
This is my second novel dream this year, and as soon as I woke up I took down notes on everything I remembered, which involved one scene where one of the main characters stole a bunch of diamonds from the top of a merry-go-round. This, of course, is not particularly relevant to the rest of the story. The main concept behind the novels, in theory, is that the Veil between this world and another one, probably heavily influenced by magic, is extremely weak, and certain individuals see and interact with both at the same time. The overlay between the worlds is really interesting to me, as it seemed to work so that if someone was injured by warriors from behind the Veil, they would probably end up being treated both at a modern hospital and by a Veil healer, but the modern hospital workers wouldn't be able to see the wounds created behind the Veil, leaving the person completely at the mercy of Veil healing techniques and without the benefit of modern technology. I imagine that this overlap would be really difficult to make come across well, as the person interacting with both realities would be acting in both; whether they were predominantly interacting with one or the other, their body and actions would be clear in both realities. So would they be considered insane? Or would their body be able to handle dual activity, so that while acting behind the Veil, they would also be acting in the real world with responses that made sense? Possibly, people who didn't perceive the Veil would be tricked by the Veil's own properties into believing that the person was acting appropriately, even when they were not...
At any rate, the dream was quite bizarre while simultaneously being strangely coherent. The notes are interesting, and mostly, unsurprisingly for me, character centric. (Notably in the dream, I was also wandering around, doing research for these very novels that were going on simultaneously in the dream.)
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In other news, I stopped by a local book/card/candy store to find out if they might carry my novel, and I was told to come back Monday morning and see the buyer. They apparently really like to carry local authors, which I find quite exciting! I'll take them a flyer in the morning, and possibly pop over to the major independent bookstore in Shoreline Connecticut (R. J. Julia's) and see if they'll consider carrying Into the Reach as well.
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Currently Reading: Tales of the Last War, as I haven't finished it yet.
Currently Playing: Knights of the Old Republic II: Sith Lords, which promises to take me longer than the fifty odd hours I normally spend on X-box RPGs...
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Date: 2006-07-23 11:12 pm (UTC)Shawn
Poetry
Date: 2006-07-24 04:55 pm (UTC)Re: Poetry
Date: 2006-07-24 06:30 pm (UTC)Dreams
Date: 2006-07-27 06:12 pm (UTC)Oh, and I'm playing KOTOR 1 right now. As is my roommate. As soon as I beat it, I'll be on the 2nd one, so I'll have to chat with you about it sometime. And if it takes that long, I might need your help too.
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Date: 2006-07-27 10:29 pm (UTC)KOTOR II seems to me to be quite a bit buggier than the first one, so when you get to it, and I can't stress this enough, SAVE OFTEN. Otherwise you end up redoing the last half hour of game on a regular basis.
On the up side, that inspires me to leave the X-box and go back to writing, so I suppose it's a good thing.
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Date: 2006-07-27 06:14 pm (UTC)