Hello there. It's been a while since I posted. I've been so darn busy lately and I've hardly had time for quite a few forums I'm on. A lot has happened since I was on here last and I won't bore you with all the gory details. I had to close down my business and I've been doing a lot of freelance work to try to pay the bills, most of that writing related.

A few months ago I decided that I would try my hand at writing novels, so I blocked out about six hours every day where I work on that only, no other writing. I had an idea for one book and I knocked that one out in a couple months and that draft is now in the editing process. Then while I was still writing that one, the weirdest thing happened.

I had the most vivid dream involving time travel. For most of the dream I didn't even know I was lucid, which is not the norm for me because most of the time when I'm in a dream that vivid I go lucid. Eventually I did, but that was near the end right before I woke up. The gist of the dream was that I found out that some bad dude was going to go back in time and kill George Washington. I figured I had to stop him, so I went back to look out for this guy to show up so I could stop him. I never did confront the guy, but spent most of the dream talking to Washington's parents when he was just a baby and telling them that I thought someone was going to show up to do them harm.

I woke up and thought that would be a good novel plot and I just finished the first draft. It was a blast. Bad guys think that would be the best way to do in America by preventing it from ever founding, good guys go back to stop it, and accidentally bring an infant Washington back to the current time, only to find themselves in an alternate world that came about by him not being around. Then the good guys have to try to go back to fix things and the bad guys don't want that to happen. I wrote it as something of a light hearted comedy and not a hard core sci fi.

Anyway, since I haven't published either of these two books yet, and since putting links here could be construed as shameless promotion, I'm not going to do that. I just thought it was amusing that I got a book idea from a dream. I wonder how often that happens with other writers.