<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hi Lynda, </div><div dir="ltr">I love how dreams can affect our stories, although I'm sorry to hear that so many of yours are unpleasant. </div></blockquote>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. <div>Vejas <br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On 22 Oct 2019, at 03:52, Linda Lambert via Stylist <stylist@nfbnet.org> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Vejas, what a great topic to bring up – writing at night.</div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">I have never needed to sleep like most people – normally only 3 hours is all I would sleep in any one night.</div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr">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.” </div><div dir="ltr">I was so happy to hear this reaction from her. </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">Lynda</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">My Books</div><div dir="ltr">first snow, chapbook</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">Star Signs: New and Selected Poems</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">E-books on Smashwords</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">Social Media</div><div dir="ltr">Lynda's Author Page at Amazon</div><div dir="ltr">Lynda's Page at DLD Books</div><div dir="ltr">Lynda's Website & Blog</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________</div><div dir="ltr">Writers Division web site</div><div dir="ltr">http://writers.nfb.org/</div><div dir="ltr">Stylist mailing list</div><div dir="ltr">Stylist@nfbnet.org</div><div dir="ltr">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org</div><div dir="ltr">To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Stylist:</div><div dir="ltr">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/alpineimagination%40gmail.com</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></blockquote><style><!--
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