Dream A Little Dream by Liz Flaherty

This is one of those fabulous writer weeks. Not because anything happened or even because my writing has been brilliant--it didn't and it hasn't. But I've written every day, the story is nearly done, and it's just been...fabulous. 

However, I haven't written my post for today, so I went digging through old stuff and found something I'd forgotten I'm going to use pieces of. (The forgotten ones are good--that means if you've read it, you forgot it, too, right?) I hope you weigh in with some answers, because, you know, always questions. 

I dream a lot anymore--not sure what that's about--and even though I don't usually remember them in detail, I often wake with a sense of unease because of them. 

But I never dream about writing, even at the most exhilarating times (new contract, new release), the most frustrating ones (no to a proposal, abysmal royalties), or even the most anticipatory times, such as the week before going to a conference (when I had nothing to wear, was fat, and knew no one would want to talk to me).

Then last night happened. When throughout the dream, I was not myself. I was an

annoyed teenager whose mother was intent on running--and ruining!--my life. I didn't recognize anyone in the dream, but it took place in my house. At the end--I don't have cool dreams I remember in their entirety--I was standing in front of the TV, bound and determined that regardless of what my mother had said, I was going to watch the end of the show that was on. It was an episode of Tales of Wells Fargo.

I have no idea what that dream meant, but I've decided I'm going to pretend it was about writing simply because it made me wonder some things.

1. When you're writing, do you become the person in whose head you're residing, or are you still very much the narrator even though we all know better than to use omniscient POV? 
2. Are there rules--like the much-maligned POV ones--that you'd like to break just because you like them in prose even if it seems no one else does?
3. Do you think our stories come from our dreams even if we don't remember them?
4. To the writers AND the readers, do you like dream scenes in books?
5. Do you have recurring dreams?

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The covers up there are commercials. Aren't they nice and subliminal and all? Here are the blurbs and links. I hope you try and enjoy them!

A Year of Firsts

Widow Syd Cavanaugh is beginning a “year of firsts” with the road trip she’d promised her husband she’d take after his death. An unplanned detour lands her in Fallen Soldier, Pennsylvania, where she meets the interesting and intelligent editor of the local paper.

Television journalist Clay McAlister’s life took an unexpected turn when a heart attack forced him to give up his hectic lifestyle. He’s still learning how to live in a small town when meeting a pretty traveler in the local coffee shop suddenly makes it all much more interesting.

While neither of them is interested in a romantic relationship, their serious case of being “in like” seems to push them that way. However, Clay’s heart condition doesn’t harbinger a very secure future, and Syd’s already lost one man she loved to a devastating illness—she isn’t about to lose another. Where can this relationship possibly go?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09S2GRWZN/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4

Life's Too Short for White Walls

Still reeling from her divorce, Joss Murphy flees to Banjo Bend, Kentucky, where she'd been safe and happy as a child. The family farm is now a campground. Weary and discouraged, she talks owner Ezra McIntire into renting her a not-quite-ready cabin.
With PTSD keeping him company, Ez thrives on the seclusion of the campground. The redhead in Cabin Three adds suggestions to his improvement plans, urging color and vibrancy where there was none.

Neither is looking for love, yet the attraction they share is undeniable. Can the comfort of campfires, hayrides, and sweet kisses bring these two lost souls together?

B & N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lifes-too-short-for-white-walls-liz-flaherty/1140917290?ean=2940160796727

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09QXPBGG2/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i4

Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/lifes-too-short-for-white-walls/id1606569657