Andrew Beahrs
Being able to choose what I'm going to dream about for a period of weeks, months, or years.
When writing is going well, it can become a kind of lucid dreaming that allows you to experience settings and personalities far outside your normal life. It's very much like reading, in that way, but with the great difference that writing takes much, much longer, so that starting a new book is plunging into a kind of secondary dreamworld that you'll be living in for months (at a minimum). I used to see that time commitment as daunting; now I see it as an opportunity to explore times, places, and characters that fascinate me.
When writing is going well, it can become a kind of lucid dreaming that allows you to experience settings and personalities far outside your normal life. It's very much like reading, in that way, but with the great difference that writing takes much, much longer, so that starting a new book is plunging into a kind of secondary dreamworld that you'll be living in for months (at a minimum). I used to see that time commitment as daunting; now I see it as an opportunity to explore times, places, and characters that fascinate me.
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