Dreams

Dreams are great for creativity.  I had many dreams that came up as ideas for my writing.  It was a starting point.  It triggered a writing idea.  After that, with time, the idea mature and become a full story.  It happened to me on a few occasions in the past years.  Some ideas changed a lot since their beginning.  For other, it was less drastic changes.

I also use dreams to develop writing ideas.  It can start with  a dreams I had.  I will let it develop over the nights that follow.  It will end up as a writing idea over time.  It vary on how long it can take to come to something I am satisfied.  It is not a quick process, that for sure.

Last morning, I had an idea that I thought to be "mature and ready to be written.  But I got an additional idea that put more on the story.  It is linked with the beginning but the idea in itself is place at the end.  Let's go with the explanation.  Pretty much at the beginning, my two main characters are living kind by their own, having a lot of time in the street.  They are young, at the time.  There is a event that remove them from the street and into their proper place, where they should be.  Fast forward later, when their children are starting to get into their teenage years or near it.  It is where my brain pick up on an idea.  They interview some young living on the street.  They decide to return on the street to meet old friends.  They do so with the persona they had when younger, the alibi they had at the time.  They do it undercover for some reason.

Because of that idea, now, I have to write that additional idea.  I think it will add to the story.  I also use that as a trigger for the end of my story, where they meet a group of important people from far away.  I am not totally happy to write more for that story.  I do understand that this is something I need to, to further develop the story.  Thinking of it, maybe this story isn't fully developped...