| Full Circle |
| A dream is just a dream, right? Well... Every night, like clockwork, I had the same dream. For years! Same characters. Same scene. Same dialogue. A woman returns to her hometown after an absence of almost twenty years and comes face-to-face with the man who had betrayed her young heart--the reason for her hasty departure two decades earlier--and his now nineteen-year-old son--the manifestation of that betrayal. With the REPLAY button seemingly set on auto, I began to wonder, if this recurring dream didn't have some significant meaning for me, like, maybe I needed some psychiatric help? Imagine how relieved I was, when, years later, after deciding to write Inspirational Romance fiction, I used this scene in Full Circle and, ta-dah!, the dream ceased. By the way, I did make some minor alterations to this scene. Because I didn't know any nineteen-year-old men to model my chararcter on, I changed him to a nine-year-old girl, using my niece as an example, and consequently, I replaced the twenty year absence with a ten year one. Ah! The power of dreams! The stuff that stories are birthed from. |
