[Stylist] Dreams - Night Writing

Tue Oct 22 22:02:40 UTC 2019

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> Hi Lynda, 
> I love how dreams can affect our stories, although I'm sorry to hear that so many of yours are unpleasant. 
I sometimes have dreams where I'm actually listening to a story recorded on tape. This is what I used to do when I was really young. If I liked the ideas, I'd consider using them. 
Vejas 
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> On 22 Oct 2019, at 03:52, Linda Lambert via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Vejas, what a great topic to bring up – writing at night.
> I seldom do anything with prompts because I have more ideas for what to write about than I will ever be able to write in my lifetime.
> Writing Block is something I know nothing about – for me, there is never enough time to write all that is in my mind to write.
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> I  have never needed to sleep like most people – normally only 3 hours is all I would sleep in any one night.
> Most of my writing is done at  night – I get up at 2 or 3 am, and work for anywhere from 2-3 hours, just about every night.
> This enables me to put down thoughts or dreams – and if I have a  dream that has imagery I want to capture, I get up, go downstairs to my office, and write whatever it is that was on my mind.
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> If I am not at home and don’t have access to my computer, I carry a Milestone, on which I record ideas.  I softly speak into that Milestone when riding in a car or picking up on conversations I want to remember later.  I make notes on the milestone when I am reading books also. This is how I capture quotes from books that I want to refer to in later writings – the Milestone is only the size of a credit card, so I can carry it so easily without anyone ever suspecting I am recording on it – they don’t even see it, usually. I’ve been using a Milestone for 11 years – I learned about it wen I did a 3-month residency for Personal Adjustment to Blindness, at the Blind and Vision  Rehabilitation Services in Pittsburgh, PA in the spring of 2008.  This is my most-used tool  in my arsenal of tech stuff.
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> My dreams are harrowing – I have seldom, if ever, had a pleasant dream.  I am always in  dangerous places, with no way out – and  always very high up on a mountain top – mostly in winter time, with high winds and icy conditions – my dreams are typically supernatural  in nature – and I have written a number of poems from my dreams.  In my chapbook, first snow, that will be released on January 3 on Amazon (Publisher is Finishing Line Press),  I have a “Dream Sequence” with  8 poems, written directly from my dreams.  I have an extremely rich dream-life – from my earliest memory onwards.  I cannot lie down to have a “little nap” without going immediately into a dream state – a very deep sleep – with vivid and lucid dreams.
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> It has often been said by others that when they read my writings, it is like they are in a dream and they don’t want to waked up.
> One reviewer said of my book, Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems, “I was so sad when I came to the end of the book.”  This surprised me and I asked her why.
> I thought she was glad to be done with it for some reason and I wondered what it was. I thought my writing depressed her.
> Instead she told me, “I never wanted it to end  - I wanted to stay in this place, forever.  I  wanted to  keep reading the book forever.”  
> I was so happy to hear this reaction from her. 
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> This is the same reaction that my paintings and art work evoke in my viewers – No matter what we are doing in our creative life, we are living in the overflow of what we dwell on.  In my own experiences, I see that the overflow I capture is definitely connected to my night life of dreams  that compel me to get up and write – every night.  While this is true of my writing, my art is not that way at all. I have never in all the years since I started painting in 1976, painted at night.  I have, when traveling, drawn in my sketchbooks at night – in the dark – and I’ have written poems about drawing in the dark – but painting, never.
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> Lynda
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> first snow, chapbook
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> Star Signs: New and Selected Poems
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> Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems
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> Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage
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> E-books on Smashwords
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> Lynda's Author Page at Amazon
> Lynda's Page at DLD Books
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