Sometimes the character leaks the secret when I'm laying in bed in the middle of the night, or even in my dream. Sometimes it's after I've been furiously typing and go back to actually "take in" what I've typed.
The latter is how I felt at the ending of Revelations of Tomorrow. I stopped typing, wiped tears away and reread it to really see why I was crying... and then cried all over again.
And, again, the latter is what happened to me the other night. This time, though, my brain split and I had an internal conversation between Mini-Mental AR and Subconscious who, for the record, was still typing away.
"Whoa... really?" Mini-Mental AR scoots anxiously forward to the edge of her admittedly imaginary seat.I can't reveal what the -- er -- revelation was, I'm no story spoiler after all, but I will say I was blown away. I thought--oh, yeah, not a story spoiler. Damn it!
"Really," absently replied Subconscious.
*Clickety, clackety, click, click, click on the keyboard in the distance.*
"Are you sure? I mean, I thought--"
"Wrong. You thought wrong."
*Clickety, clack, clack, click.*
"But--"
"Shh... I'm busy."
"Yeah, but--"
"I said SHHH."
*Clack, click, click...*
(This is like when I saw what present my mom and step dad were wrapping for one of my siblings and I had to keep my mouth shut for weeks.)
I was just talking with a musician about this same thing. Artist of all kind get into "The Zone" and the story, song, painting just takes over. Good stuff!
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how the brain works in artistic/creative people. Now if only I could overcome the other side of that artistic coin and reach the point where I feel what I write perfectly portrays the mental reel in my head. (The endless struggle.)
DeleteLOL. Been there. I love this post. If only there was a computer that could read our minds and take dictation. I swear I've written whole novels in my dreams sometimes, complete with narrative voice. It's amazing what our subconscious, not to mention our inner muse, can do.
ReplyDeleteMe too! I'll wake up exhausted but exhilerated and rush to capture as much as I can. The brain is just completely fascinating. I'd love to unravel some of those secreted areas... it's almost like having Area 51 in our heads. We hear the rumors but we can never get close enough to see for ourselves.
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