I have read advice that you don't want too many dreams in your stories. I have read that you most certainly don't want to begin your story with a dream. And I don't in any of my stories. But I do use dream sequences a couple times in KOK. Drugs are involved in that story and in KILLER EYES. It's a super drug invented to heal injuries at an accelerated rate. But it does more than that. It affects the body chemistry, like drugs do, and makes dreams seem more real. Of course it does a lot more than that, too, but that's why I have a couple dream sequences in KOK and KILLER EYES.
Speaking of dreams, I had one this morning before I woke up, and it was about waiting for some man to interview me about publishing my book, THE VASE. But it was weird, as dreams can be, that I didn't want to wait for the dude. I was at a mall or something like that, and invited into this sort of reception room where I was waiting to be seen by some fast-talking con man, and I got up and left because I was unwilling to wait.
And that's funny unto itself, because the submission process is largely about waiting. But after I got up, these scary looking men followed me and tried to bring me back to that room, and even grabbed me to force me back, but I wouldn't go with them. I was not so eager to get published by these guys. I think I believed they were some kind of subsidy publishers. And it's true one publisher that contacted me was just that. You had to agree to buy something like five thousand dollars of books from them to get published by them. That sounded ridiculous to me, so no thanks.
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