I had this really cool dream about historical China, complete with multiple POV shifts and a very complex storyline. At one point, I informed the main character that I wouldn’t be writing his story because it wasn’t the sort of thing I do and I was worried that too many of the details were historically inaccurate.
Thanks for the catch! And, I have no idea whatsoever what a rubric's cube would be or would do. But…
That’s pretty funny. I’ve had narrative dreams ever since I can remember. As a kid I had a couple that even had punchlines. But the first writer dream I can remember happened when I got back to writing after a hiatus as a young adult. When I woke up I remembered the title of the story I was writing in the dream and decided to write a story while awake to fit the title. But China, that’s a good one. I’ve thought about writing about China, but only because it’s so interesting. Without speaking or reading Chinese, I think it’s hopeless. At least for me.
I love it.
I know an editor who had a dream where he made a bunch of arbitrary cuts to a story by a writer we both know right before he published it, and was wondering why he made these cuts (which were terrible cuts) and how he was going to explain them to her. He was immensely relieved to wake up and remember the story had already been published without said cuts.
Since we’re on silly work related dreams…When I was a medical student I dreamed that I was on rounds and the attending kept asking increasingly difficult questions about kidney function. Then I woke up with an extremely full bladder and a conviction that Sigmund Freud just wouldn’t have approved at all.