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DREAMS AND INSPIRATION

I’ve been kicking around a specific story in my head for a while now. I have a good Act One, but I seem to get stuck on Act Two. My belief is that my villain simply isn’t good enough. You’re hero is only as good as your villain as the saying goes.

I had a dream a few nights ago that played out like the movie. It was a very good story line for this character….at least as far as I can remember. That’s the problem I had. I only remember bits and pieces of the dream. The feeling is that the story which played out in it was exactly what I’ve been looking for, but now I can’t recall much of it.

I’ve been reading a book called "On Writing Horror"


One of the authors wrote an essay about entering a state between dreaming and awake in which he has "received" many of his stories. He talks in it about being able to use this state of mind to recall dreams in their entirety and thereby cull from them his stories.

I’m working on doing this now (well…not literally…I’m writing this blog now) in the hopes that I can recall the dream for this script. Has anyone been able to recall a dream in vivid, or at least enough, detail to create a story from it? I’d love to hear who, what and when. Until then I’ll keep trying to find a technique that works for me.

Best of Luck and Life,

Jerry W. Hawkins

President

Hawkins Productions

www.hawkprod.com



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