Young Adult Fantasy Novel Comes while Sleeping

to write or not to write

If you let your mind wander while reading the title of this entry, it might meander straight into the gutter...but that's not where I intended to divert your mind...
I Woke up this morning, my brain brimming over with ideas about a YA fantasy novel that my daughter and I are brewing up. I love it when that happens, when bits of stories play out in my head like miniature movies. So, I got my coffee, headed to the computer and jotted all those thoughts down. My daughter has all the ideas about the fantasy world for this book, my ideas, which came to me while sleeping, are about how the relationships between characters might play out. Maybe the ideas came so easily because I was relaxed, exilerated and exhausted after yesterday's four-hour horseback ride with a girlfriend and my trusty steed, Koko. We went on a poker ride in a horse-friendly state park an hour or so from home. We made some new friends, bumped into some old friends and enjoyed the day with our equine friends through the woods, over bridges and streams, and along meadows. And I got away from my computer and keyboard. As wonderful as living the life of a writer is, it's also important to remember to tear myself away and go be free somewhere else.