#WritingCommunity #WritingQ Dreams/Visions Have any of your stories been inspired by dreams or unexpected visions? Have you had dreams about your WIPs or had a dream that helped solve a problem in a story? Share as much as you wish! - ThreadSky

scarletvmitchell.bsky.social • 4 days ago

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Dreams/Visions

Have any of your stories been inspired by dreams or unexpected visions?

Have you had dreams about your WIPs or had a dream that helped solve a problem in a story?

Share as much as you wish!

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scarletvmitchell.bsky.social•4 days ago

I had a dream at the end of last year that felt like a Ray Bradbury story dropped into my head in its entirety.
That's not my style of writing, so I'm struggling to write it.
The metaphors and allegories are... extremely on-the-nose... while I usually prefer more subtlty.

scarletvmitchell.bsky.social•4 days ago

(It's about sexist anti-trans bathroom bullshit and includes a distopian anti-feminist coffee shop and a creepy, addictive AI service.)

scarletvmitchell.bsky.social•4 days ago

I've also have random visual images that often pop in my head and can sometimes spark stories.
One is the haunting image of sentient pottery that sparked a post-apocalyptic short story I'm working on.

scarletvmitchell.bsky.social•4 days ago

Otherwise, I can't say that I've ever dreamed about my longer works. I obsess over my novels and characters in daytime, but at night, my brain doesn't seem to care much about those worlds or characters🤷‍♀️.

thedicepooltavern.bsky.social•4 days ago

My first ever confirmed character death in any piece of writing that I'd done came to me very suddenly, like it was just coalesced into fact by the will of the character themselves. I saw it flash in my head, and it was such a strange experience 😅 But I honoured them for the sake of my writing 🥰

scarletvmitchell.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wow!

randomguyladypfp.bsky.social•4 days ago

One nightmare I had as a child and still do sometimes.
I have written about and its very vivid. Nightmare cars would eat me.

made a great short horror story. :D. "
While I had one I wrote about a girl in a blue hospital gown that nibbled my toes once in my sleep. woke up it was cat munching on me.

randomguyladypfp.bsky.social•4 days ago

yeah, I will say some dreams have inspired some stories and Art creature works. So that's really cool, I think. :).

scarletvmitchell.bsky.social•4 days ago

That is really cool! Our minds can play unselfconciously in the dreamspace, dump symbolism into our ideas, wiggle weird ideas into life, it's rich territory!

randomguyladypfp.bsky.social•4 days ago

I like dreams, used to wake up screaming too few of them.
Now I work my way around them to help for new WIP ideas.
Mind is great. :D.

randomguyladypfp.bsky.social•4 days ago

While one issue solved a problem in my story about Dahlia and dreamed very abstract of how Davis was abused with nails dug into his back.

Same are wack.

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