Hi writers,
Lately I've been having nightmares about mice. Often.
Usually these dream mice just run around underfoot, and I have a heavy sensation of being unsafe. But in
last night's, one crawled through a hole in the ceiling and bit me on the hand. To the bone!
They're getting bold.
The mice are more than mere mice. They represent something, and I think I know what that something is.
But today I considered writing a short story about killer mice. Mice that represent nothing more than mice.
Nightmares can lead to wonderful, and wonderfully creepy, fiction. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein after a dream. Poe wrote stories based on nightmares. So has Stephen King.
Robert Louis Stevenson's wife once woke him from a nightmare, and he was furious. "Why did you wake me?" he shouted. "I was dreaming a fine bogey tale."
That bogey tale became The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
How do your dreams/nightmares and your writing play off of each other?
Do you ever turn your dreams into fiction? Do you ever dream about your fictional characters?
So drop on by and share your thoughts, your experiences, and your tips & tricks for using dreams in your writing.
And if killer mice appear in your dreams
tonight, call me immediately. We need to do something about this infestation! Like find the phone number of a good dream exterminator.
