Feo Takahari
Auror
My dreams are often unusually structured, with clear beginnings and middles (and sometimes ends, if the alarm doesn't wake me first.) For some time, I've been trying to turn them into stories, but I've usually been unsuccessful.
A few months ago, I had what was then the worst nightmare of my life. (This is the nightmare I mentioned in "True to characters, or to ideals?") I toned it down, gave it an idealistic ending, and posted it as an erotic horror story. It's still pretty dang unpleasant (I don't think I'd even be allowed to link it here), but it came out as a good story that I'm happy to have written. I figured dreams like that might be worth it if I could use them as inspirations.
I didn't expect the later nightmares to be even worse.
They're not that common--just one or two a month--but they're unrelentingly dark and gut-wrenchingly violent. I think I'll need to talk to a psychologist about them, if only to find out what's causing them. But I figured it might be worth asking a community of fellow writers, "Do you think this is an okay tradeoff?" Would you be willing to have horrible dreams if you could write them down and turn them into stories?
A few months ago, I had what was then the worst nightmare of my life. (This is the nightmare I mentioned in "True to characters, or to ideals?") I toned it down, gave it an idealistic ending, and posted it as an erotic horror story. It's still pretty dang unpleasant (I don't think I'd even be allowed to link it here), but it came out as a good story that I'm happy to have written. I figured dreams like that might be worth it if I could use them as inspirations.
I didn't expect the later nightmares to be even worse.
They're not that common--just one or two a month--but they're unrelentingly dark and gut-wrenchingly violent. I think I'll need to talk to a psychologist about them, if only to find out what's causing them. But I figured it might be worth asking a community of fellow writers, "Do you think this is an okay tradeoff?" Would you be willing to have horrible dreams if you could write them down and turn them into stories?