Courage

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.



Mark Twain, 1894



Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Another

I had another dream Sunday night, well, Monday morning actually.  The wee hours in the morning after my neighbor left out to go to work before the sun woke for the day.  (I live in what I lovingly refer to as a paper house as I can hear every noise outside, including my neighbors alarm clock.  Which I think that says the same thing about my neighbors house as well...perhaps we all live in paper houses.  I do reside in a mega metropolis of a little over 1600 people.) 

I stayed asleep as long as possible, only being interupted by my own alarm clock screaming at me to get up (e-v-e-r-y 9 minutes) because I myself had to go to work.  I waited and waited, glancing at the clock wishing for just 2 more minutes, just 2 more minutes!  Alas, I had no more minutes.  I had to get up.  I spent the rest of the next hour going over and over and over the dream in my head, tweaking it here and there, adding to it but never being able to write (or type) it down because I was rushing around getting ready for work. 
My morning routine is down to a science, every minute is accounted for, I had no spare minutes.  Maybe I should invest in a voice recorder...hmmm...your thoughts?   

As for the dreams, let me go more into detail about that.  I do not dream the whole story.  Well, I have only done that once and it was a week long dream, which is very tiring, honestly, I was exhausted by the end of it. (and that story is sitting in a drawer waiting to be written)  But 99.9% of the time I only dream the first part of it, and when written out that only equates to the first few chapters.  I may dream/remember snippits of something that did/should/could happen later in the story, but for the most part, after the first initial few chapters the rest comes from my head.  Well, honestly it comes from God who bestowed upon me this precious gift of an active vivid imagination.

So there you have it.  A third story idea, this one is about the Fey just in case you are wondering. :) 
So to sum it up, there are 2 that are finished and just in the proof reading part; 1 that is about 5 chapters in, which is the sequel to the first one about Renn and Zeb; 1 that is 15 chapters in, which is the sequel to the second one about Amelia and Bass; and now this new one that is a brand new one for a grand total of 5.  2 finished, 3 in the works, none available for anyone to read.  HA!   But I am working on that, promise.

Thanks for listening,
M.L.

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