Dream

[poliphilo]

I went up into the attic and found an aquarium I'd forgotten all about. It was full of dying fish, their gills and fins clogged up with mould.

And there were dead otters floating on the surface.

O God!

On the Jungian model houses in dreams represent the psyche. If you go down into the basement you're digging into the subconscious. By the same spatial analogy, I guess the attic has to represent the higher reaches of the mind (whatever that means.)

So my higher self if full of this ghastly stuff. I've neglected it and now it's dying.

I think my novels may be indicated. There they are- all four of them- sitting on the hard drive going nowhere. It's been a year and more since I last approached an agent.

I guess I know what I have to do...

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I'm glad, Tony, that you're going to find an agent for your novels. I loved the two I read so much.

Your dream was very to the point, wasn't it? Succinct.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I hate having to do it.

I sent novel #1 to a whole slew of agents a few years back. Then I tried again with novel #2. It's dispiriting.

The thing to do is to cultivate detachment. Like good ol' Epictetus.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I thought about Saxon River today.

There's that water connection to your dream...

That book riveted me.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Yesterday I began thinking it was time I started another novel.

And today i began having ideas for it...

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad you are having ideas for a novel again.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think I want to be doing some creative writing again.

At present (but don't hold me to it) I'm thinking in terms of a rewrite of my second novel. It's my favourite but it's got a lot of flaws.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Someday I would like very much to read it, in whatever form.

I love your writing.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I won't send it in its present form. The ideas I've been having involve a substantial remodelling of the plot.

But (if and) when it's finished I'll let you see it.