Anna DeStefano's Blog

Sarah in Secret Legacy is hiding all kinds of things in her spooky dreams (from family, from her friends and enemies, and from herself most of all). Just like we all lose important parts of every day to our subconscious, and those parts start dancing around in the worlds we paint after we go to sleep. The thing with Sarah Temple is that her dreams tend to become reality, and she’s losing control of them (or maybe she was never in control in the first place, since a secret government unit of mad scientists has buried sleeper programming in her mind to manipulate her psychic abilities into a direct strike weapon). So, you know, not know what’s going on inside her sleeping (and maybe even waking) mind tends to make things dicey.

Yeah, scenerios like that are what’s monopolized my mind for the few weeks I’ve been away. Plus, there was the holiday travel and catch up and the the prep for the next holiday. Craziness–and I have the pictures to prove it, so look for those throughout the week. But I’ve also been hard at story work, and dream work. So Secret Legacy’s coming along nicely.  And I’m in the groove and daily writing toward my first “rough” draft THE END. Which means things are going to pick up out here.

It’s amazing the things that happen in our dreams when we are minds are turned on and firing at full speed ahead. Like Sarah, my dreams are swirling. And like my Temple Twins, my dreams give me visions of what’s going on under the surface that my “awareness” becomes during the day. Yours, too, right about now, I suspect. Because this time of year we’re all running on empty and pushing to do more and trying to stretch shorter and shorter days to get the most time out of them we can. Which  means there’s less energy to process everything that’s happening, and so our sleeping minds pick up the slack. (more…)