Dreams about Characters

[reddery]

There's a writer in most of his stories.

The Stand it's the kid who betrays everyone for a woman.

Misery

It - one of the kids is a novelist

might be the dark half:
Stephen King wrote several books under a pseudonym, Richard Bachman, during the seventies and eighties. Most of the Bachman novels were darker and more cynical in nature, featuring a far more psychological sense of horror than visceral. When King was discovered to be Bachman, he wrote The Dark Half in response to his outing. The book is similar in theme to another King novel, Misery, featuring a successful writer of popular fiction who, longing to return to more substantive literary pursuits, decides to kill off the pen name of his popular novels.
-Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Half

or secret window:
Mort eventually locates the magazine that proves he published "Secret Window" before Shooter wrote "Sowing Season." He goes to the post office, where he gets the story. But when he gets out of his car, the sheriff approaches him with a smirk asking him if he could ask a few questions. Mort then leaves. But when Mort gets the magazine, he finds that the story has been cut out. Mort's inner voice tells him that since the magazine was sent to him in a sealed UPS package, Shooter could not have tampered with it. Prompting from his own conscience leads Mort to the realization that Shooter is not real, only a figment of Mort's imagination brought so vividly to life through undetected dissociative identity disorder to personify the dark side of Mort's personality and to commit acts that Mort himself feels he could not commit
...
The movie, however, ends on a rather sinister note. The local sheriff informs Mort that he knows what he did and as soon as they find the bodies, he'll go to prison. Mort dismisses the statement nonchalantly, and replies that "The ending is the most important part of the story. This one is very good. This one is perfect." It is then revealed to us that by growing and consuming corn from the garden where his ex-wife and her lover are buried, Mort is slowly trying to destroy all the evidence needed to incriminate him
-wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Window

[reddery]

Originally Posted by Ralphy W

Anitapooh -

Are you thinking of The Dark Half?

Probably thinking of this:
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[JeWeL]

If I fall asleep with the TV on I can actually put myself into whatever is on the screen but with character and script changes. If freaks me right out... Good thing porn is on Pay per view.

[ChipC]

Originally Posted by JeWeL

If I fall asleep with the TV on I can actually put myself into whatever is on the screen but with character and script changes. If freaks me right out... Good thing porn is on Pay per view.

Hey Jewel! why don't you try it and let us know how it worked for ya! Could make a great movie...

[Jenny]

I recently had a dream about the main character in a script I shelved months ago. I woke up thinking, "what a great idea!" pulled out the old draft and started making the changes. They didn't work. It was a bad idea.

But - on that pass through the script I added a secondary character who gave some new life to the story. Then I realized I could merge the new, fun character with a dead-weight plot-only character and clean up a whole pile of plot muck sitting in the middle of my script.

So while the dream was a bad idea, the kick to revisit that script turned out to be a good thing

[JeWeL]

Originally Posted by ChipC

Hey Jewel! why don't you try it and let us know how it worked for ya! Could make a great movie...

I will try it.

Then we can collaborate on a book. "How NOT to Screenwrite!"

[wcmartell]

I dreamed my character, a top gun pilot, had to take his big flight test... and showed up at Miramar *naked*... then he started falling... then...

[ChipC]

Originally Posted by JeWeL

I will try it.

Then we can collaborate on a book. "How NOT to Screenwrite!"

Okay, I'll do all the sleeping and dreaming and you do all the writing! What a team!