Saul Bellow said "You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
I suspect that he was wrong, because oftentimes in the middle of the night I wake and scribble down something.
In the morning I find phrases like "Rabbit Feet" and remember that I dreamed about a girl who found a secret school in the basement of her actual school. In the secret school everyone is part animal. The girl discovers she has rabbit feet. How did she never notice?
I find a post-it that says "Bathroom Journal" about a girl who hides her journal in the library which is in a bathroom. Also, she writes lies in her journal. So half of the excellent book I could write would be her lying journal and the other half would be a third-person narrative about how crappy her real life is.
Seriously. I have about one brilliant idea like this a week. I wake up feeling happy and secure in the promise of a Printz award.
Then, a few hours later, I look back on what my dream was REALLY about.
Of course, the scene in Twilight where Edward sparkles in the sun came to Meyer in a dream...
Maybe Rabbit Feet could be the next best seller.
2 comments:
Throw a dragon into any of your stories and every 12 year old boy in the country would read it.
edward is hot.
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