Post 21 – Daydream Yourself into Your Work
Posted on | December 28, 2009 | 6 Comments
Much good writing, even fiction writing, requires research and study. If you want to get your story straight, as they say in the Cop shows, you need to know the facts that support and enhance your work. Even good fantasy has some root and basis in reality and science fiction will need a plausible scientific underpinning.
Sometimes, the “research” is just you making stuff up.
Either way, though, once you do the research, daydream. Think about the specific facts you’ve discovered (or created) in your research. Take these specific facts and make them real for yourself – imagine the size, shape, texture, smell, taste, color, sound of the things you’ve discovered. First, imagine them consciously, think about them, feel, see, taste, hear, smell them in your mind. (When you regularly do Finger Exercises, this is much easier.) Then, as they become more real, let them percolate into your subconscious. (Or, as Paul Sheele calls it, the “other than conscious” mind.)
Once you’ve let them go a little, sit and daydream. Daydream while you wash the dishes. Daydream while you do your laundry. Daydream in the shower and on the toilet. Don’t daydream while you’re driving (let’s be logical about this daydreaming stuff,) but if you’re sitting in the back seat, daydream! Sit on the couch and simply daydream. If your spouse or roommate or parents ask you why you’re just sitting there, tell them you’re working!
When you daydream yourself into your work, you will be amazed at how easily the words flow once you finally sit down to map out your story. It’s easy to tell a story that you’ve experienced in real life, and when you daydream about the circumstances of your story, you are experiencing it. In real life. Really. Your subconscious doesn’t know the difference. To it, it’s all just stuff to experience. The story will often “tell itself” after that.
This is what I think true inspiration is, you’ve done the work, now the Muse (your subconscious mind) feeds you the art.
~Geoff Hoff
Co-author of such how-to guides as On Writing With a Partner and On Writing a Short Story.
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December 28th, 2009 @ 12:39 pm
Love this post, Geoff, cause “I’m just a Day Dreamer”!
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December 28th, 2009 @ 1:35 pm
December 29th, 2009 @ 5:56 am
Finally, someone to validate my down time.
Nice article on daydreaming, Geoff.
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December 29th, 2009 @ 8:27 am
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
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Still doing my Finger exercises!
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December 29th, 2009 @ 11:18 am
Love it, Geoff! Daydreaming is my specialty! I am relieved to know I am “allowed” and can put it to good use.
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Thanks for all these wonderful posts. I do not want the 30 day challenge to end!
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