 Fantasy: June 19, 2013 Issue [#5736] |
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This week: Dream Sequences Edited by: Prosperous Snow celebrating  
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Writing a dream sequence in a story or a novel is difficult because it has to advance the plot and the reader needs to realize it is a dream.
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I remember a science fiction movie about an alien invasion. While I was watching the movie I thought that the events were supposed to be happening to the character until he woke up and the invasion turned out to be a dream. The main character got out of bed and went to his bedroom window, when he looked out he saw a saucer shaped space ship landing. The main character was a school aged child, after he saw the space ship he ran out of his bedroom to tell his parents and that is where the movie ended. I was left with the impression that the events in the dream were about to occur. I was disappointed because I was led to believe that the events in the character's dream were actually happening to the character.
I have read well-written dream sequences that I knew were dreams. I have read dream sequences that I did not know were dreams until the character woke up. I prefer to know the character is dreaming because otherwise it is a shock when the character wakes up. If I do not know the character is dreaming until he or she wakes up then I have to stop to reading for a few minutes to figure out what is going on in the story.
There are some things a writer needs to remember about dreams when putting them in a story. A dream can assist a character with internal conflicts. A dream contains symbols that reveal the character's internal conflicts. The events in the dream may be absurd while representing actual events in the character's life. A dream does not last long because dreams occur in REM sleep. The reader should be able to distinguish the dream from other events in the story.
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Excerpt: I woke up in the belly of the beast. The air whale swallowed me right along with the krill birds.
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Humans are dying of a disease and the aliens on earth refuse to help them.
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Excerpt: The street was dark without street lamps, but shapes were discernible because of the crescent moon. A figure scurried along the crumbling buildings, pressed against wall. It was hunched and smelled like rich liquor and expensive cologne, out of place among the reeking piles of wastes and broken buildings. The thing turned down an alley and came out in a different world.
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Excerpt: The dragon rumbled with displeasure,
Missing pieces from her treasure.
Excrept: Six estheticians took their cars and sold them to some rising stars
near Hollywood’s old sushi bars then left the Earth to go to Mars.
(They had connections from on high allowing them to sail the sky
and had flight training in their thoughts because they bedded astronauts.)
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Excerpt: Corn. I hate corn. J.W. thought as he stared at the can of creamed corn in his hand.
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Excerpt: A knight once said, "I never wanted to be a knight. My father planned out my life even before he married. I would become a knight and bring him glory. My father has been a magistrate for years and years. He knows nothing of knights except that they are 'men of honor.'
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Excerpt: Under the full moon, the creatures danced.
Excerpt: I was running down an alley, my shoes sounding loudly off the cobblestone. My panting breaths sounded even louder being reflected off the stone walls as I ran. It was late evening, and the setting sun made the sky look a dark red, which seemed somehow fitting considering much of the city was on fire. I had managed to avoid being injured, but I was exhausted, scared, and alone. I didn’t know where my parents or friends were, and to be honest, I wasn’t even sure where I was. All I knew was that the place I was in was under attack, and I was in trouble.
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Excerpt: Half a millennium ago an apocalypse drove the world into another Dark Age. While man struggled to rebuild on the ashes of their ancestors, races long believed to be only myth have begun to return from self-imposed exile to live alongside them once again. But that is not all that has returned.
Excerpt: Ever since you could remember, you enjoyed reading the “Tales of Redwall” series. You loved reading about those heroic mice, and their friends, as they fought against those villainous rats, and their ilk. You cheered the heroes, Martin, Gonff, Matthias, and the other brave ones. You booed the villains, Badrang, Cluny, Slagar, and the other evil doers. You wailed at the deaths of Rose, Father Mortimer, and the others who gave their lives to protect the good people. Then, you were saddened to hear about the death of the Author and creator, Brian Jacques, just as his last book was published.
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SirSchemingSerpent writes: Oh snap, my story is here - how cool!
BIG BAD WOLF is Merry  writes: Best guideline to writing Fanfiction is to know and understand the Lore of the series you're putting your story in. Take Redwall for instance (I just love that series). You don't need to read all 22 novels to know that Mice are Nobel and Rats are Evil, but they help to know the difference between Cluny the Scourge and Gabool the Wild- two of the most evil vermin you'll ever meet on land, or sea.
Voodoo Shampoo writes: hello, i would like to know what you think of time paradoxes
any newsletter of time paradoxes will be greatly appreciated and adored
thank you!
Lunarmirror writes: It is hard to stay in character. I think I borrow personality traits and themes more. Most Fanfiction I've written in my teens is is AU (Alternate Universe) The most recent ones I've written are character vignettes.
Mark Allen Mc Lemore writes: Interesting newsletter since I am intending to read Fritz Leiber's rogue duo Fafhrd and Gray Mouser from the beginning. I ordered all seven of the books at the ancient place of knowledge, the place few tread- my local library.
Point, I just found out there is an eighth book in the series written by someone else. The ultimate placement of Fan Fiction, right in a series of books written by the creator decades (centuries?) previous.
Would be awesome to write a novel amidst Robert E. Howard's Conan, or how about Norman Bates originally crafted in perfect first person by Robert Bloch? Oh my. Fan fiction finds a home!
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