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[nowisforever]

Today's Daily Writing Tips indicated that I could come join the Forum, so here I am.

This seems like a nice place to spend some time, especially as more people come to know about it, and it becomes more lively.

I wonder how many writers obtain inspiration from dreams and how valuable this is typically to a writer. This morning I had a dream about creating sonic sculpture. Objects in the dream were being made of sound. They had three dimensional form and were cast instantly by the power of thought. These were small objects, about the size of a hand. The logic of the dream (would it be proper to call anything in a dream logical?) had them as well adapted as possible to the moment of their creation. They flowed out of the mind and couldn't have been made in any other way.

Since then I have tried to think of a way that objects made of sound could be constructed that would not violate the principals of physics. Hm-mm, maybe someday...

Anyway, it's just something that has preoccupied me on this first day off of two.

Eschew obfuscation (please).

-- Charles

[Daniel]

Welcome aboard. Somehow I suspect you would write some great science fiction :) .

[Mikes]

I wonder how many writers obtain inspiration from dreams and how valuable this is typically to a writer.

Hey, charlies, nice to meet you.

I think it's personal to each writer where they get their inspiration from. I read an in Neil gaiman's short story collection (Smoke and Mirrors I believe) that he cna't turn a dream into a story as dream logic isn't story logic, which I completely agreed with, until I had a dream and turned it into a very surreal short story. But as Gaiman said, I think inspiration, yes; complete story, no.

But hey, I don't know what goes on in your head ;)