March 11, 2019
When you are daydreaming, what do you dream about?
When I sat down to write this post, I was struck by the realization that I don’t daydream as much as I used to. Or, at least, my daydreaming is more organized.
I used to be able to sit and stare out a window and not even remember what I was thinking about later. I can’t remember the last time I did that. I think it’s because my creativity expresses itself in a different way now.
Now, when I “space out” I find myself thinking about my characters, past and current. What have they’ve been doing since I left them? What adventures did they get involved in that didn’t get included in their book? If they are part of my current story, what have I missed that needs to be included?
Occasionally, I’ll stumble across a new story as I ponder my old ones. That’s where Lori’s story in Wolves’ Gambit came from. I knew she was unfinished business when I wrote her scene in Wolves’ Pawn, but it took a couple of years to get back to her. And she was getting into all kinds of trouble when I wasn’t looking!
I guess you could say that while I still daydream, my daydreaming is productive now. Is that a contradiction? I don’t think so!
What do you daydream about? While you think about it, I’m going to hop over and find out what the other authors have to share,
March 11, 2019
When you are daydreaming, what do you dream about?
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Research shows daydreaming is useful in a whole host of professions. My cousin (a research doctor) tells a story of how one of the great breakthroughs of his field came about because of an intern daydreaming. The young man made a leap of logic during his idyll and when he shared it with the research team, the sage researchers said "Okay, kid, go see if you can find some facts to back that up." He did. It changed the field they were studying. It does down as a team accomplishment, but Rick says the intern's leap of logic moved them forward much faster than they would have gone by tradition methods.
It's like the old standard of people doing their best thinking while they are taking a shower.
Absolutely.
When you posted this question, all I could hear was the Monkees singing. And, I am super glad to see that we have this in common as a tool in our arsenal. I like the connections we make in these posts that show our commonalities, because it helps to know we're on the same page, and that "it's an author thing."
There's a lot more people share in common than divides them, but our world today is extremely focused on divisions – the inability to let the other guy think differently than us without ascribing insanity, stupidity or evil to their nonconformity. These posts show that we can unite on some ideas and diverge on others. That's a good thing!