Writers Are Conscious Dreamers

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer. - Carson McCullers

I love this quote because it describes the experience of writing so well!

Composing a story or a poem is dreaming with your eyes wide open. Images and textures, thoughts and words, sounds and smells, and feelings float in from the ether.

You catch some of them in your net—and bring them into the waking world with ink and paper. You build of them something new, an arrangement of words only you could make.

When you’re finished, you’ve created something whole and shining, like a crisp red apple in the the palm of your hand.

Share your conscious dreams with us. We want to know what you see.

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