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Do any of you daydream? I mean daydream all the time? I have written things since I was a child, but I've never really sat down and finished a book because my mind wanders to new ideas all the time. I'm an artist and I enjoy writing. I'm also an avid gamer in the tabletop role playing. I know I have to write it's just the point of sitting down and making the time. But I have really vivid dreams. Some bordering on disturbing, others are incredibly beautiful and surreal. In some of my dreams I actually die! Which is strange I'm told. My mind constantly wanders and thinks of wild imaginary lands and creatures, space colonies, alien life, spirits, demons, gods, angels ect. But anything dealing with the modern day bores me. . I just need to start waking up at 4am and writing. And stop saying I'm going to do it. Its funny I don't have writers block, I can think of almost anything immediately its just the fact that I don't do it. Its like thoughts constantly rambling in my head about different storylines all the time. I wish there was a market for brainstorming. I'd make a fortune.

I daydream often, just about random things, but most often about people in different book scenarios, etc.
This often proves troublesome to my writing, however, for when I'm working on one piece I type something in that inspires a completely different tangent and I am pulled between trucking it out and finishing the current piece or exploring the new recesses of this present idea.
My dreams are interesting, too, with things from my past that I can barely remember woven into most of them, but I do not think that I've ever died, only close to it...still, vivid dreams can prove to be valuable and realistic backgrounds from stories, if you can get it down on paper.
As for the writing part, I am constantly thinking in "novel form." I will hear someone say something or see someone do something and instantly I picture my characters doing that and I wonder how someone else might react, what they would say. I even do that with my own conversations, or when I'm in trouble. It's comparable to the way directors picture their movies scenes portrayed. But that's just me!
And procrastinating? ME TOO! I have so many stories to tell but I usually cannot find the drive to write them. I make notes on my cell phone and say I'll get back to them later. NaNoWriMo really helped, though. 50,000 words in a record 18 days, versus 30. A major boost in writing adrenaline. Just give yourself a deadline! (And I would wake up at midnight to write, finish by 2, and still get up for school at 5:30)

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