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- Go to Writers Workshop: How do you write a dream?
Well you just say, I had this dream,' Actually I find dreams pretty boring when they keep intruding into a story. Well and everything else that deviates from the story line.Although I am sure your dreams are worth a chuckle or two.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 16, 2014 at 12:50 AM
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I actually haven't written about a dream yet....maybe one day soon and then I suppose I would italicize it
posted by
Annicita
on March 15, 2014 at 5:15 AM
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I don't think I've really written a dream. Actually, I don't really like reading dreams. I usually skip over them in a book and go on to the next part.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 12, 2014 at 10:23 PM
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Re: FormerStudentIntern.
How did you write it? What problems did you see in writing a dream that you needed to solve?
posted by
Ciel
on March 12, 2014 at 12:36 PM
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Re: Pat,
I love your metaphor!
At first I thought you said going to seven/eleven when we sleep. 
posted by
Ciel
on March 12, 2014 at 12:35 PM
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Re: dsm tchr,
Fiction isn't determined by length. And a dream sequence doesn't have to be fiction, either, now I consider it. The question is more about how to write a dream so it comes across as a dream, without (as in a letter or non-fiction) coming right out and saying it's a dream.
So... if you were writing a novel or a short story, how would you do that?
posted by
Ciel
on March 12, 2014 at 12:32 PM
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Re: Sometimes a dream is one of many on a theme - like being in a
I haven't written anything long enough to qualify as fiction. And i seem only to relay dreams in short conversations and letters.
posted by
dsm_tchr
on March 12, 2014 at 11:26 AM
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Sometimes a dream is one of many on a theme - like being in a
big office building or mall, walking with someone or trying to catch up with them as they proceed ahead of me through the crowd... They always feel like familiar places at the time, but in thinking about the dream sequence, they're usually surreal and from another dimension - which might be where we go, to one of the eleven the scientists are debating about these days, when we sleep. Sometimes a dream is the answer to a question I had the previous day, some question I had as I was dropping into sleep. But the writing of a dream is like crocheting with trailing spring clouds - not so simple.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 12, 2014 at 9:54 AM
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I myself have written a fictionalized dream scene. Now that I think about it, I do like your method.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 12, 2014 at 9:34 AM
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