Mental Movie Making

[ithildin]

When a story I'm writing finally clicks on, it pretty much becomes all I think about. Whether actively, or running in the background while I'm working on something else, it's there. Very often, I'll wake up in the morning with it in my thoughts. All consuming, you might say [g] Of course, that doesn't always help in the actual writing! Turning the movie in my head (because it really is just like I'm watching a movie) from visuals to words doesn't always come easy. And I always seem to forget the best bits of dialogue by the time I sit down to write!

Anyone else have similar experiences, or is it just me? And what are your experiences?

Comments

[endaewen.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I usually get an entire story/story idea sometime like three in the morning, and by a decent hour, it's all gone, or else if it's not gone, it seems so stupid by the light of day that I don't write it. Add to that that I'm a procrastinator and there you have it. I don't get as much written as I'd like.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I have my best story sessions right on the edge of sleep, that sometimes work there way into dreams. But like dreams, they tend to wisp away in the daylight