I’ve been having a lot of dreams about revising lately. Not stress dreams of the sort from which I wake exhausted feeling as if I’ve worked all night yet accomplished nothing. Rather, dreams from which I wake feeling sharp and invigorated, as though taking time out to sleep hasn’t slowed my momentum in the slightest. Not that I emerge from them with actual fixes in mind for the stories I’m wrestling with in my waking hours. Nevertheless I take the dreams as a reassuring sign that my subconscious is working for me in the endeavour to get my manuscript into final form. The end is in sight.
Bon courage, Kate! I think I will have to try composing in my dreams - need to do enough of this to have something to revise! But revising is quite tricky, so it's nice to have subconscious boost.
ReplyDeleteI really do believe that the time your subconscious spends on a problem counts toward working on it. There's something very mysterious and wonderful about our brains, and how well they do despite all the self-deafeating things we do while we're awake.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a wonderful state to be in -- productive and intense, in a good way. Congrats on being this close to the end!
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