Poof and it's Gone

I had a very good night's sleep. Up several times but right back to sleep. Also had good dreams, very vivid at the time, but now completely gone except for bits and pieces. I hope I can bring some of them back, they seemed very interesting. Who knows what that really means. At the very end, right before I got up, I was dreaming of typing and I really enjoyed it. I watched very closely as my fingers moved on the keyboard. Actually, it wasn't watching, it was more just knowing where the keys were. Whatever it was, I had a good time wth it.

Just got a glimpse of the dreams before it. It was another traveling dream. I was somewhere away, On a train or public conveyance and it was time to get off. I was gathering my stuff. We had been somewhere. A fancy place in a big city, maybe like a casino. They pop up  in dreams because they're kind of dreamlike places. Brightly lit warrens of rooms, some large some small, every one decorated up. Many doors in and out. It was time to go. I was looking for a dark blue windbreaker jacket, like I wrote about in the story two days ago. Huh! Why would that pop up in a dream?

So I'll move on and maybe more will come back to me. I wonder what today's story will be about. I found the online and print magazine Carve and Carvezine last evening and glanced at a couple stories therein. I want to go back and look at some of those. What I saw was quite good. It made me think more about what I put into the stories.

I do want to make sure to keep my stories simple and fast to read. To some degree, that means that I need to keep the vocabulary easy and the image density sort of low I think. It's important to know where I'm going before I begin so that I can wind around to it in an interesting way. That means I need to have a different way of organizing my stories. It means I have to think ahead to have a starting place or event. I don't actually have to have an ending. I think it would work to just picture an evocative starting place.

For eaxmple, a man standing by a burning car on a country road, or someone standing frozen in a store aisle after hearing a series of gunshots, how about a guy gets into an elevator and the other guy in the elevator pulls out a gun and hits the emergency stop.

Something like those. A single scene that makes you look at it and think. Wow, what happened there? or Ooo. What happens next?

Then I get there with a little twist from a nearby position and just don't start out at the position, move back to an unrelated spot and twist and turn once to get there.

That's not a bad little formula for a start.

I'll have to go take Ashton to driving and then to the store.  I'll clean up now.

More later,