I like that you call it dreaming. If it's anything like what I do, it's accurate.
Once I've dreamt it from beginning to end, however, it's done. If I complete it in my mind, it's gone. The idea is there, the interest typically isn't. Which is why I tend to think with my fingers (I'm getting a lot of use out of that phrase). Because then it's written. The only ideas I let myself dream are things I know I would never write. I storytell to myself every day, but I can't do that with things I'm writing.
I don't know if it used to be different. I don't think so. I think I used to type more (I was more prolific in the early years) and finish things more because there was no one in the beginning to share with and I hadn't... hadn't really started dreaming then. I thought of story things when I was ready to write them.
Now I have to intentionally turn my dreams away from things I'm writing, because unless I can jot the words down (or record them, as I now have two devices close at hand for this), once I've seen it, once it's been... actualized in my mind? It never gets written. Because the words at that moment are perfect and the frustration of being unable to recreate them later... even if the interest was there, it dies.
LOL, well, I reread books all the time, so I kindof treat the dreaming like that. Read it through once for the fun, tweak it here and there in my mind, and just make sure I don't replay it very often. So that when I get around to writing, it's a fun recap of what I'd dreamed earlier.
If I do replay it pretty often... yeah, it gets stale, and then it's no fun to write. o.o But the dream once, then write, seems to be working out fairly well so far. I lose a few stories here and there, but the fandom never knows about those. ;p (Except when I don't finish writing the epics o.o -- why I'll never ever ever post "in progress" fics.)
I don't get enough straight time on the computer to really do a full 'write as I think'. Or rather, not enough writing time, always. I tend to grab ten minutes here, ten minutes there... sometimes a whole hour on my netbook, but that's rare.
Because the words at that moment are perfect and the frustration of being unable to recreate them later... {nods} I know that one. But sometimes it's also interesting to see what *new* words have come instead. Part of it is a feeling one gets in real dreams, when we have the satisfaction of accomplishment but don't really know why and then it turns out to all have been the endorphins in the brain just promoting the feeling of awesomeness when it was really anything but. (Seriously, just try writing out some of your dreams (real dreams) immediately upon waking sometime... and you'll find they're mostly not nearly as cool as it felt they were.) So I try not to let that feeling get in the way of actually *writing* it later. Mind-smithing is one thing... Word-smithing is another. Different talent. And even though I do dream by mentally writing it out including all the words, it's not the same as when physically writing it.
It's actually a bit freeing, to know where I'm going exactly with a story after having dreamed it, because when I'm writing I can concentrate more on the english and verbiage and sentence structures, editing as I go to make sure I'm writing well grammatically and in the 'feel' of a story, rather than concentrating on plot alone.
There's usually about a dozen dreamed stories to every one that gets written down. ~..^
Once I've dreamt it from beginning to end, however, it's done. If I complete it in my mind, it's gone. The idea is there, the interest typically isn't. Which is why I tend to think with my fingers (I'm getting a lot of use out of that phrase). Because then it's written. The only ideas I let myself dream are things I know I would never write. I storytell to myself every day, but I can't do that with things I'm writing.
I don't know if it used to be different. I don't think so. I think I used to type more (I was more prolific in the early years) and finish things more because there was no one in the beginning to share with and I hadn't... hadn't really started dreaming then. I thought of story things when I was ready to write them.
Now I have to intentionally turn my dreams away from things I'm writing, because unless I can jot the words down (or record them, as I now have two devices close at hand for this), once I've seen it, once it's been... actualized in my mind? It never gets written. Because the words at that moment are perfect and the frustration of being unable to recreate them later... even if the interest was there, it dies.
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If I do replay it pretty often... yeah, it gets stale, and then it's no fun to write. o.o But the dream once, then write, seems to be working out fairly well so far. I lose a few stories here and there, but the fandom never knows about those. ;p (Except when I don't finish writing the epics o.o -- why I'll never ever ever post "in progress" fics.)
I don't get enough straight time on the computer to really do a full 'write as I think'. Or rather, not enough writing time, always. I tend to grab ten minutes here, ten minutes there... sometimes a whole hour on my netbook, but that's rare.
Because the words at that moment are perfect and the frustration of being unable to recreate them later... {nods} I know that one. But sometimes it's also interesting to see what *new* words have come instead. Part of it is a feeling one gets in real dreams, when we have the satisfaction of accomplishment but don't really know why and then it turns out to all have been the endorphins in the brain just promoting the feeling of awesomeness when it was really anything but. (Seriously, just try writing out some of your dreams (real dreams) immediately upon waking sometime... and you'll find they're mostly not nearly as cool as it felt they were.) So I try not to let that feeling get in the way of actually *writing* it later. Mind-smithing is one thing... Word-smithing is another. Different talent. And even though I do dream by mentally writing it out including all the words, it's not the same as when physically writing it.
It's actually a bit freeing, to know where I'm going exactly with a story after having dreamed it, because when I'm writing I can concentrate more on the english and verbiage and sentence structures, editing as I go to make sure I'm writing well grammatically and in the 'feel' of a story, rather than concentrating on plot alone.
There's usually about a dozen dreamed stories to every one that gets written down. ~..^
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