Thread: New Member Writing a Book, I Need Volunteers

Well, I guess I better introduce myself first.

I'm eureka. I've been actively pursuing LDs since January of this year. It was fruitful at first but now my LDs are few and far between. I'm almost one hundred percent sure that it's because school and work has screwed over my sleep schedule. I also haven't been keeping up with my reality checks.

Now for the interesting part, I'm writing a book for a competition called National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo for short. Basically, I have to write a novel that is 50000 words in length in 30 days (that calculates to roughly 1667 words a day for you people reaching for the calculator). The books are never the best quality but it's all about getting your ideas on paper and refining them afterwards. This is my first time in the competition. I'm by no means a writer, I'm just an idea generator who happens to know how to use a keyboard. The grand prize is nothing but bragging rights, there is no prize money or awards or candy. The first half of my story is about a dreamer who gets entrenched in the dream world. He starts losing control of what's happening in his waking life and retreats to lucid dreaming to try and make up for it. Eventually, the line between waking and sleeping becomes a huge blur and he doesn't know whats in his mind or real anymore. I want a big part of the book to be about a forum that he's a part of. At first I called the forum Nightfall as a filler name but I thought to myself "Maybe there is a lucid dream forum out there." Turns out there's Dream Views. A big theme of the book is how technology, especially the internet, has helped to promote lucid dreaming by the sharing of techniques and other ideas.

Here's where you come in, who wants to be in my book? I need five or six people with a lot of LD experience for specific information and if they wouldn't mind being main characters in my book I'd be thrilled. If anyone else wants to play a minor role, just respond and I'll make sure to include you in one way or another. The more the merrier. 50000 is a lot. The faster you guys and gals respond the faster I can get to writing. I'm 3000 words in and he's just about to log in.

Cool a book, it sounds interesting to be in one, oh and welcome to DV, anyway, whats the role of the people in here? Because I don't get it... sorry <.<

hey, i would be very happy to be in your book! put me in whatever role you see fit. i call myself a novice, but i have a fair amount of experience, and i have endless "power" when i am lucid. feel free to ask me anything you want, i don't know how much you wanted to know about me before you put me in a role so i left it pretty much open.

Sweet, thanks ForgottenDream.
Just basic information is fine.
Here's a good starting template.
1. First Name
2. Home Country
3. LD Inducing Techniques
4. Interesting Experience

I also am going to have to write on your behalf so I would appreciate a description of your "style"
Are you a social kind of person, tend to keep to yourself, mild-mannered, energetic? The more detail about your character the better.

Also, don't feel obliged to indulge information about yourself. For all I care, you can make up a character, as long as it's consistent. I'll probably come back to people that have agreed and asked them stuff like "What's the first thing you would do if you joined into a group dream with everyone else on the forum? What if someone got murdered in that encounter?" Weird stuff like that.

There are two things that people can do for me:

1. Basically, just do what you'd normally do. I just want consent that I can use your likeness in book that will make zero profit. It's like a permissions slip. "Oh, so your so-and-so from Texas and use WILD-CAT that's pretty cool. Can I put you in my book?" Your level of involvement is up to you. If you want to be one of the main characters I can write you as one. This is where I want to take the story, the main character (Malcolm), meets a bunch of people of Dream Views, and they all bounce ideas of each other and get pretty close. They decide to meet one day and they all hit it off. From there they try out their own little experiments on the side and eventually manage to dream share. From there they explore the possibilities. Still not sure how it ends but that's the gist of it.

2. Throw ideas at me. I'm a newbie when it comes to LD. My character will eventually become an LD champ. I need to know the kind of stuff he'd know. Do you have an idea for a good dream related plot twist? How fast can you go from a normal dream to lucid? What are the most reliable reality checks?

If nobody want to be a main character, no hard feelings at all. I just wanted more than one angle. I'm sure if I rack my brain enough I'll be able to come up with something.

Originally Posted by eureka

Sweet, thanks ForgottenDream.
Just basic information is fine.
Here's a good starting template.
1. First Name
2. Home Country
3. LD Inducing Techniques
4. Interesting Experience

I also am going to have to write on your behalf so I would appreciate a description of your "style"
Are you a social kind of person, tend to keep to yourself, mild-mannered, energetic? The more detail about your character the better.

Also, don't feel obliged to indulge information about yourself. For all I care, you can make up a character, as long as it's consistent. I'll probably come back to people that have agreed and asked them stuff like "What's the first thing you would do if you joined into a group dream with everyone else on the forum? What if someone got murdered in that encounter?" Weird stuff like that.

There are two things that people can do for me:

1. Basically, just do what you'd normally do. I just want consent that I can use your likeness in book that will make zero profit. It's like a permissions slip. "Oh, so your so-and-so from Texas and use WILD-CAT that's pretty cool. Can I put you in my book?" Your level of involvement is up to you. If you want to be one of the main characters I can write you as one. This is where I want to take the story, the main character (Malcolm), meets a bunch of people of Dream Views, and they all bounce ideas of each other and get pretty close. They decide to meet one day and they all hit it off. From there they try out their own little experiments on the side and eventually manage to dream share. From there they explore the possibilities. Still not sure how it ends but that's the gist of it.

2. Throw ideas at me. I'm a newbie when it comes to LD. My character will eventually become an LD champ. I need to know the kind of stuff he'd know. Do you have an idea for a good dream related plot twist? How fast can you go from a normal dream to lucid? What are the most reliable reality checks?

If nobody want to be a main character, no hard feelings at all. I just wanted more than one angle. I'm sure if I rack my brain enough I'll be able to come up with something.

being a main character is no problem for me

i'll be as honest as possible.

1. Kenny or Ken for short, it doesn't matter.
2. U.S.A
3. awareness, if that's a technique lol. basically all you need for a lucid dream is awareness.
4. there are tons of interesting experiences. to name one, i would say teleporting was very interesting. i used the spinning technique (spin slowly, that's the trick) and i watched as the scenery changed before my eyes. as trees became houses, and vines became lampposts.

i can be spontaneous, but at the same time i can be very stable and i'm always reliable (except for library books for some reason lol). my friends say i'm funny, but they know where the line is (i'm training for mma, and built, but fairly short 5'8). if something needs to be done than i'm the guy to look for. i can also be lazy if there is nothing going on, i will do nothing at all for days in a row. as soon as i'm called to do something however i'm always there and ready, and my mind can go from 0 to 100 in a split second if necessary, although i'm fine with 0 i believe anger can be constructive, but hatred is destructive. i listen to anything from folk music to metal. and i'm easy going yet stubborn if i made up my mind. in my spare time, or even during work i ponder on many things (existence, life, eternity, lucid dreaming, etc.) if one of my friends were to get in a jam, i will be the first to try and help out. i can be the voice of reason for my friends, but i'm never paranoid, i just suggest the right thing to do.

i know this all seems contradictory but it's who i am, so you have my consent to use my likeliness in a book. if you don't know how i'll react in a certain situation, by all means feel free to ask, otherwise you can be the judge.

Everyone is already in the book. And no one is. And that turns out to be the perfect orange.

Without questions that may become the best written cheddar cheese inside out.

AWESOME!!! Another NaNoWriMo person writing a story with Lucid Dreaming!! Now I'm not the only one!!!!