Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Dreaming...


I had a sweet dream last night. It's the second time I can recall having a dream about writing.

Well, I have a dream about writing 24/7...but this was a real asleep dream.

In it a critique group was gathered at my house. I was surprised and confused that they were at my house because it was quite the illustrious group of men and women, all successful writers. One of them was Janette Rallison, or at least the essence of Janette Rallison. You know how dreams are. Things are often skewed, but definitely in my mind in the dream it was supposed to be Janette.

Anyway, everything was going wrong. I kept trying to turn on lights and they wouldn't go on. I had trouble getting my family to leave so we could have our meeting. I was stressing out. Then I went over to where the critique group was seated in the living room. While I had been busy with lights and kids, one of the men had printed off a portion of my story and read it to the group. They began to talk about it and praise it and give me good ideas for it.

Like I said. Sweet.

It must be because I ranted by email yesterday to friend and critique group partner, Tamara, about writing/publishing, which is a topic for another post, but I'll dedicate this one to her.

Thanks, Tamara!

Note: Click on Tamara's name and it will take you to her blog. Janette's name will take you to her website.

7 comments:

Janette Rallison said...

That wasn't a dream--we were all there and I distinctly remember praising your work!

Tristi Pinkston said...

What an awesome dream! And I can totally see praise being heaped on you!

And I would love to have Janette come to my house sometime ...

Valerie Ipson said...

Okay, then next time come when I'm awake and not the very middle of the night, Janette! I'll bake a cake. (Though something will go wrong with it just like the lights and my family in the dream.)

Unknown said...

What that saying--If you dream it, it will come. Anyway, may your writing continue to by SWEET.

Tamara said...

of course it was praise - you're an awesome writer! so should we move crit group to your house and see who shows up?

Valerie Ipson said...

Love it, Tamara! Can you meet at midnight?

Kathi Oram Peterson said...

What an awesome dream! It should keep you motivated for a while. :)

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