Just as we have in the past few weeks, Anah and I split up the characters for this week's exercises. We're supposed to be writing a dream sequence for our characters. From The Weekend Novelist:
Dreams are a shortcut, a window to the soul that helps you learn more about your characters.
In completing this exercise, I found that to be very true. Here is Nico's dream:
The circled words are the words that get repeated, the symbols and images of Nico's subconscious. It was through this dream that I figured out why Nico pushes so hard against the tidiness of James's life—he subconsciously equates it with the sterility of the hospital, the crisis environment he's trying to leave behind.
The Lesson So Far: Even the exercises that seem silly can offer fantastic rewards.
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