All ideas have to
come from somewhere and often for a writer the inspiration can come
at anytime. For example there you are sitting in a nice restaurant
with good company and having a wonderful evening. Then it strikes, an
idea, the need to go write it down. You know you must act fast before
this brilliant piece of work fades from your mind forever. It can be
the same driving the car and having to pull over and write it down on
whatever you can find available. At these times we never have our
notebooks handy do we?
I once storyboarded
on a tablecloth that belonged to a rather nice hotel in London. I
just could not stop myself as the words poured out. It worked for me,
sadly not for the tablecloth. Napkins are the best I find, perfect
for this. I always have a pen never paper. I know even after writing
this that will always be the way.
The ideas that come
to you in your dreams are best. You have an amazing dream and you
know it would make a good story, but then suddenly it's gone, you no
longer remember or have a clue about what the dream was. You try hard
in your mind to bring the memory back to the front of your ever
crowded brain, but its gone.
Why do we have
dreams anyway? Entertainment while we sleep? It just goes to show
that we humans need to have the land of make believe in our lives.
The escapism it brings. We act out whole scenarios in our sleep that
are very real. People interact with us and we have sometimes logical,
but then at times the weirdest of dreams, right? Not to mention
nightmares. What are they all about? Sometimes people even dream and
think they are awake. Sometimes people dream while being awake.
What's it all about?
Many a book written
too, that tell us our dreams meaning. Like there is some kind of
hidden message in our dream and a purpose for it.
Dreams don't seem to
come from ideas do they? They are very random, but there you are
suddenly in a scene, interacting with others, like it is real and you
are really there. Sometimes you can dream so deep that it takes you a
few seconds to grasp where you are when you wake. Or if someone wakes
you up and you are having a fabulous dream…
The writer is the
dreamer, for us the dream never ends. We can create and live in a
world of make believe and lose hours in our work. We can be our
characters and invent their world. We have the control over their
lives and destiny. For like dreams we create a succession of images,
ideas and emotions. A writer is the weaver of dreams.
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