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Dream Journal to Story

by WaffleKnight Creative Production › Creative Exploration

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23 minutes 5 Steps

  1. Capture

    5 minutes

    Write down everything you remember, in the present tense, without making sense of it.

  2. Underline the images

    3 minutes

    Underline the strangest, most vivid images and feelings.

  3. Pick one

    Choose the image that gives you a jolt.

  4. What if it were real?

    15 minutes

    Freewrite a world where that image is ordinary. Who lives there? What goes wrong?

  5. File it

    • Give the idea a one-line logline
    • Add it to your story seeds list