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

[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.