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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Vejas, what a great topic to bring up – writing at night.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have never needed to sleep like most people – normally only 3 hours is all I would sleep in any one night.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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<i><span style='color:red'>, first snow,</span></i><span style='color:red'> </span>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>One reviewer said of my book, <i><span style='color:red'>Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems,</span></i><span style='color:red'> </span>“I was so sad when I came to the end of the book.” This surprised me and I asked her why.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was so happy to hear this reaction from her. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lynda<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>My Books<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><a href="https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/first-snow-by-lynda-mckinney-lambert/">first snow, chapbook</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Star-Signs-New-Selected-Poems/dp/1075265436/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Lynda+McKinney+Lambert&qid=1570213785&s=books&sr=1-2">Star Signs: New and Selected Poems</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Inner-Vision-Stories-Poems/dp/B07S45ZY39/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Lynda+McKinney+Lambert&qid=1570213669&s=books&sr=1-1">Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Concerti-Psalms-Pilgrimage-Lynda-Lambert/dp/1929359187/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=Lynda+Lambert&qid=1570213942&s=books&sr=1-6">Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><a href="Smashwords%20–%20get%20my%20e-book:%20%20https:/www.smashwords.com/profile/view/lyndalambert">E-books on Smashwords</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Social Media<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/lyndalambert">Lynda's Author Page at Amazon</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><a href="http://www.dldbooks.com/lyndalambert/">Lynda's Page at DLD Books</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><a href="htttp://www.lyndalambert.com/">Lynda's Website & Blog</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'> <b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'> </span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>