Reading from Dreams & Inward Journeys

When I read the reading in Dreams & Inward Journeys about Stephen King and how he uses dreams to help with ideas for his books, and ultimately finish them, I was really amazed and impressed.  I honestly never thought to use dreams to help write.  It makes sense to use them because we have so many weird and unexplained things happen in our dreams; it would make writing so much easier and creative.  I personally do not have many dreams, so using dreams to help me write would not benefit me much.  Plus, most of my dreams are just normal routine things that I do throughout the day.  I do not have a crazy and outragous imagination like Stephen King. 

I was actually talking with my friend who is a writer about this article.  I had him read it and talked to him about it afterward; he was pretty shocked as well.  He said, he has used some of his dreams for ideas in his books as well, and that he will wake up in the middle of the night after a dream and write it down, so that in the morning he does not forget.

I also talked to my British Literature teacher about this entry.  He is not a big Stephen King fan, but was impressed with how he goes about writing.  He was literally shocked that the book IT would have been placed on the back burner if not for the dream he had to finish it (which also shocked me as well).

How Stephen King almost scratched IT and did not finish it reminds me of Aerosmith's Walk This Way song.  The band could not come up with a name for the song and was about to scratch it, but Steven Tyler went to see the Frankenstein movie that came out.  He got the name of the song from the assistant Fritz when he told the character to "Walk This Way."  Steven Tyler and the band changed a few of the lyrics around and what do you get?  A number two song on the charts and a crucial song that made the album number one.