On occasion I'll have a productive dream where I'll solve a problem that has eluded any daytime solutions. I'll wake in the middle of the night with a fully formed plan of action and then have trouble getting back to sleep because I'm too excited because I know that this dreamt up solution will work.
Something similar just happened. Only, my problem was actually a vague story idea that popped into my head an hour before bedtime and my dream solution was an early pivotal scene in my main character's development.
Now that I had this dream, I'm fully awake (perhaps also partly due to my hacking cough) and ready to fill in the blanks - what I just learned, what I still need to figure out.
Some of what I knew about this world and character before going to bed:
- There's not a lot of sunlight. When it's cloudy, it may as well be nighttime.
- It's cold, whether it's winter or summer. Winter is still the coldest and people dream of the relief brought by warm -10C days.
- Main character is a teenage girl.
What I now know thanks to my dream:
- Most people live in rural areas because they are more safe. The only ones who choose to live in cities are ones that need to - to be near hospitals or other resources.
- My main character is young, female and a runaway who's come to the city.
- My main character is dying.
- She thinks she knows what she's doing (her motives are based on the limited knowledge she has) only she doesn't really understand the world she's living in and is in fact putting herself in more danger needlessly.
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