Good morning my darklings. I’ve been dreaming all night. So much so that I remember them and the feelings I got from them. Maybe I’ve been editing too much and my brain needs some expression but I think there’s more to it than that this time.
I was a solitary eclectic witch for a long time and I stopped practicing to make other people happy. But in one of the dreams there was a tapestry and an artist trying to show me how to clean it and the mistakes. How to make it better. It wasn’t mine, it was old but it could be improved on.
When we got to the last section, it was black and orange and inside was the picture of a witch. Underneath the picture were the words Unfairly Caged. I know sometimes a dream is just a dream but from the yearning feeling I had and the excited feeling my dream self had exclaiming, “This is me! This is my patch!”, I think it had more meaning than that. Maybe it was a message.
Maybe the reason things have been so very tough lately is because I’m turning my back on what comes naturally to me. Writing comes that way and I don’t have any problem with that. Not one dream last night involved my writing.
I don’t know. I’ll have to think about it I guess. If you have the inkling and feel like leaving a comment, let me know what you think. Are there messages in dreams in your opinion? Was there a message for me in that one? Am I making my life harder by not following my inclinations? Should I take a tiny break from editing? Just enough to get something started and ready to jump into when the last of the editing is done?
My two cents–I think the dream was your subconscious way of working out your anxiety about the editing process. Somebody else (the artist) is messing with your book (the tapestry), and since you have more or less given up control to your editor, it doesn’t feel like yours anymore. As for the “unfairly caged” patch, maybe there is a particular section where you don’t agree with the edits. I know there were things that Jessica wanted me to do that I disagreed with. I learned that it was okay to dialogue with her and give her my reasoning if I objected. Sometimes we discussed and worked it out her way, other times she let me leave it the way it was. As for taking a break, I’d say keep editing, but give yourself a little bit of time each day to work on a new project or a WIP. It will keep you moving toward the ultimate goal of publication but will still give you a little time to work on something you have complete control of. How’s that for armchair psycho-babble?
I miss you here and on the FWC site. Hope all is going well.
Blessings,
Linda
I think that’s pretty good. It goes a lot deeper than I went. 🙂 Everything here is pretty ok. I think we’re all so busy now that we’re just working. It’s nice to know the group is there to go to though. We all still have that support.