{"id":1481,"date":"2006-11-27T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T19:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2008-03-31T20:50:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T04:50:39","slug":"sbd-in-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"SBD: In dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

This will be an odd sort of Smart Bitches Day<\/a> post. I’ve been meaning to write up my final impressions of Gabaldon’s Outlander<\/em>, but I just don’t have it in me today. In a nutshell: technically excellent, entertaining, but predictable. I even read the sneak preview at the end, but I’m not sure I want to continue with this series — I mean, a twenty year lapse? What’s up with that? Where did these kids come from? And what’s with the POV shift? To quote Beth, GAAAAAH.<\/p>\n

I often wonder if my subconscious believes everything it tells itself in my dreams. I think sometimes it just wants to fvck with me. Last night, I dreamed I attended a high school writers’ club, hosted at the house of one of the students. One teenage girl bemoaned the fact she had been writing for OVER A YEAR! and hadn’t been published yet.<\/p>\n

I heard myself spouting that often-repeated “wisdom” that you have to write a million words before you arrive at publication quality. “In the first five hundred thousand words,” I told her, “you master technique, everything from grammar all the way up to plot mechanics and characterization. That last five hundred thousand words, that’s when you figure out how to write stories that will sell.”<\/p>\n

I wonder if I really believe that. I’m in that second-half territory (maybe even beyond a million words, if I count my blog posts). Have I figured out how to write stories that will sell? I hope so. I think my romance is marketable. If I could only finish editing the mofo, maybe I could find out for certain. But, anyway, do I believe all this BS? And is there any truth to it? And why should I give any more credence to things I hear (or spout) in dreams than to anything else I read or hear?<\/p>\n

In my dream, the girl was the daughter of a man I despise in real life. She told me that her parents’ idyllic marriage was a farce, and she was really getting tired of all the noise her dad made at night, banging his 20-something-year-old mistress up against the wall, like Sonny and the bridesmaid in The Godfather<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Do I believe it? Is there any truth to it?<\/p>\n

Oooh, I dearly hope so.<\/p>\n

D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This will be an odd sort of Smart Bitches Day post. I’ve been meaning to write up my final impressions of Gabaldon’s Outlander, but I just don’t have it in me today. In a nutshell: technically excellent, entertaining, but predictable. I even read the sneak preview at the end, but I’m not sure I want… Continue Reading SBD: In dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","category-the-fearful-meme","category-writers-life","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}