writercises | EXERCISE: In dreams? (Reply)

Original Posting April 2, 2016

Over the years, I've had various folks recommend a dream journal. The idea is that when you wake up at night, you scribble some notes on your dreams. And hope that they make sense in the morning!

I have to admit, most of the time my dreams slip away from me. Although sometimes I do manage to wake up with a fragment stuck in my head, and I do try to scribble some notes. Anyway, how about picking a number from 1 to 6?

Now here's a fragment from one of my dreams that you've picked.

1. A group of Wolfmen and a protector. Is he protecting the Wolfmen or the humans?
2. A big book with a cover with Velcro on it that's sticking to things.
3. A pot full of sausage stew
4. Hitting a Frankenstein dog, sewn together out of various parts, with a stepladder
5. Bleeding blisters on someone's leg, and trying to find a Band-Aid to lend them
6. Giant gray pine cones with mouths full of teeth, eating their way up something. We were trying to climb the trees and kick them away, but they grabbed someone's foot.

Please don't dream analyze or psychoanalyze these, okay? I really don't want to know :-)

Your task, should you choose to try it, is to add setting, characters, and whatever else you like, and stretch that fragment into a scene or even a whole story. Simple, right? It's just a dream. So go for it.

Write!
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