If they’re decent enough that I allow them to stick around long enough to grab my attention, then (as mentioned above) I scribble them into a document with a working title (or the title if that appears with the scene), and then nudge it aside for more thoughts on it to formulate. Me: How many daydreams are still in your mind waiting to be written down? If I think the scene/character can be built on, I jot down the scene I’ve just conjured. I usually play about with them inside my head, make whoever’s invading talk to a few folk I let in, try to get a feel for their personality. Sometimes they’re simply evolving details for scenes in whatever story I happen to be working on. J.A.: Daily … hourly … until they drive me to distraction. Me: How often do these daydreams come to you? However, I didn’t figure out how I could ‘use’ those dreams for purposes other than escaping mundanity until Spring of 2009 when I wrote my first ever novel based on one of said weird dreams. I recall having very lucid, recurring dreams (or nightmares, depending on your point of view) from as young as age seven. J.A.: The daydreams started at such an early time in my life I can scarcely remember or pinpoint the time-the night-dreams, too. Within no time, they have a life, an entire world in which they live, a lover, a foe, family … they have Become. Their actions will reflect the personality you have bestowed upon them.

Those characters you control will begin to hold conversations. Questions arise: What would happen if …? How would they react if ….? Who would they meet if …? And before you know it, a singular scene has become an entire movie. One of those daydreams where a character or scene pops into your head, and you start controlling the little people inside your imagination as though you are the puppet master and they your toys. Me: I love the introduction at your website. You remember I revealed the cover of Eternal?

She has authored 5 books, the latest is coming up in July.

Crux by Julie Reece