I've been thinking a lot about HEA, trauma and writing.

My world view is a lot more convoluted and complex than what the Sunday school felt boards and the board room white boards depict.

In a perfect world, people could seek to read like little kids, never having had any trauma, looking to learn, curious about the human condition. And nothing they read could place them any closer to any universe containing things that might hurt them.

In a dangerous universe, someone may learn a useful trick on Burn Notice that helps them escape or avoid a nasty situation. People willing to learn from history can arm themselves to protect themselves and others from going down the wrong paths.

I do see a balance between writing for left brain versus right brain.

If the Mandella effect* is due to quantum computing, our own human spirits are the biggest culprit, always moving us into realms of our dreams' and expectations' directing as our own thread of the shared dream we call reality. Sure, there are prophesied events that must come to pass, but other events are fair game for variation. As beloved creations its our job too, to avoid volunteering as pawns in the action. And I do see some merit in cautionary tales, educational tales as well as happy tales. There's balance involved. Every author must find their own balance, to find their own voice.

In my own balance both as author and reader, I like to explore and learn, yet always come out the other end better for it and victorious. That best seeds the dream self with expectations of victory, while educating the practical self with learning from history. Some write for a more guarded readership, protected by long standing rules of logic from spawning realms very far off center from group accepted norms. Some (like me) write for travelers, those whose navigations are constantly shifting and changing the exact thread of the multiverse they inhabit.

The difference between dreams and realities being the living spirits invested in them, the investment for some is long term, others short trading. Shifters are doing a lot of short trading, and I write a lot for them. My readers perhaps more than anyone recall the most differences between the worlds they've lived and the worlds they find themselves occupying. Expectation makes a big difference in the jumps, the shifts, and the materials I input into the parallel processing statistical inference engines of the back brain to form dreams and hunches and even outlooks I tend to make optimistic, so their next shift, their next jump, is one for the better.

I guess some authors write for the academic, the more slowly moving hardback edition universe navigators. I write for the paperback, even the tabloid or comic book crowd whose every interaction with each universe thread could be their last before they jump and shift again, matter seething and boiling out from their fertile imaginations as they create not only their next steps but the stepping stones under those steps. That's why I read and write with such HEA in expectation and expression. I know that's not for everyone. Do I write for dreamers? Oh, yes indeed. Some more down to earth might call me a silly little girl, a dreamer.

Someday I'd like to get a church choir to sing Aerosmith's Dream On.

* NOTE: In this universe, they mis-spelled Mandella Effect. Figures, it couldn't even get the Mr Rogers theme right. Everyone knows it's a beautiful day in THE neighborhood!