Writing from Dreams

[BronwenWPhoenix]

Hello there I'm new to this forum and I don't really know that many other writers, especially ones who write from dreams, like me.

Do any of you have that experience? I have the most graphic, movie-like and sometimes disturbing dreams, but they help me to write my fiction so I'm not complaining!

I am a published author of two books so far and my first, Escaping Dreams (fantasy/horror fiction), was published in June 2008. Nightswallow is more supernatual fiction and has just been released.

At the moment I'm writing my third novel and also trying to freelance - I left my job at a local paper to move to a new city with my partner, and journo jobs are a bit scarce at the moment so I feel a bit like this lol!

 

[WickedWitch]

This is fascinating.

The only other person I have heard about is the artist Julie Speed. I was so fascinated by some of her paintings, and I wanted more information. I read her biography, hoping that she would comment about what image she started out with, and how it changed as she was painting. But she said that she dreams the finished image, and then paints exactly what she dreams. So no art interpretation from that artist. (Sorry to get off topic here.)

 

[BronwenWPhoenix]

Not at all - she must be very good at replicating images from her mind. I'd never be able to do that if given a blank canvas and some tools, but with words I find I can create the dreams relatively as they were.

I like writing them as they were, and not just taking a simple starting point and creating a whole new story in my head. There's something more satisfying for me, even if some would prefer the story to take a different turn.

 

[Eva]

All of my fiction ideas come from my dreams. I have vivid, exciting, hilarious dreams and I wake up actually saying out loud "What a great idea for a story!" Then as I start to look at it and try to write it down and so forth it turns out to be incoherent and, well, too dream-like. So I have to beat it into shape and it usually ends up not resembling the original dream much, but at least it gives me something to start with.

 

[manuscriptx]

Dreamscape

I suspect a lot of non-published writers over the internet write at least one piece based on dreams since they are the best source material for any story.

Myself, I plan on infusing some material based on a dream I've haven't forgotten since the summer of 1995 ( 14 years ago ).

That combined with another aspect about my own life.

 

[Didi_Gogo]

Wow. I do the same thing (except I'm just a kid, so it really isn't that big a deal). I had this dream that was influenced by me just finnishing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and watching all three of the Final Destination movies in one night. It was very disturbing, but strangly stuctured for a dream. I thought I'd write it down so I wouldn't forget, but then it turned into this reeeally long story. Most of the things that I wrote about though were not in my dream, just the begining. oh well... ^_^

 

[Forest Elf]

I love dreaming. I have some pretty vivid and entertaining dreams. However, they aren't usually on subjects I enjoy writing about.

Though earlier this year I did have a dream that gave me an idea for a novel. Though I am working on a couple of other books right now ... I did get started on that 'dream book' and have about 15,000 words on it. I will probably finish writing that next year.