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| beejay |
Posted - 04/11/2009 : 2:12:17 PM
When I was growing up I only had one or two dreams about ASJ but since I have been on the boards, writing fan fiction, running boards etc. I have noticed the number of ASJ dreams increase and wonder if anyone has had the same thing happen.
I even used a 'solution' from a dream for a story; how to get the boys on a train for married couples only. The dream solution was different than the final story in that it involved a third person, a former gang member, living in a cabin on the out skirts of town, who happened to have a tall sister whose clothes would fit either one of the boys. Since that was getting too complicated for a short story this gang member was eliminated.
Other dreams would never work as stories; even while I was dreaming I never could figure out how Harry Briscoe got a wagon and horses into a second story hotel room.
Anyway the dreams are always very vivid and elaborate, usually mini-episodes that I am observing and not in. I'm going to post the latest one below.
Anyone else?
I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn |
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| beejay |
Posted - 03/12/2010 : 11:04:23 PM
Wow! Now that's a dream! That is pretty darn imaginative, Grace. And you really got a story out of it! I think most of my ASJ dreams are too quirky for stories. Funny thing, I don't write h/c stories, but I dreamed up one once. But when I woke, I realized that a story where Heyes was sick, and someone was considering turning him in wasn't exactly original. LOL But he was reduced to sleeping on the floor of the house of the rancher who was thinking of turning him in.
My dreams have always been vivid, but I have taken medications that have cause nightmares so I know how you felt. I was taking medication while I was on a trip a couple of years ago, and didn't make the connection until after the third night of nightmares. I was having such a lovely vacation, I couldn't understand why I was having a series of awful dreams! And I had a 'lovely' dream of a elderly pioneer ghost woman touching my nose after only one drink at my brother's house in Arizona. That one freaked me out,especially when my sister-in-law told me the next day that a wagon train of pioneers had been killed by Indians in the area where his house was built. Go figure...
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I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn |
| Sister Grace |
Posted - 03/12/2010 : 11:52:53 AM
beejay, These are some mighty detailed dreams you are having! Dan Blocker as Kid?! 38 kids?!
I do admit to dreaming about asj sometimes, but it is usually not very detailed and not inspiration for fan fiction, however:
My January challenge 'Tempted' was the result of a nightmare. There was an awful feeling of slipping slowly, further toward the edge of a cliff and a certainty that I was losing my mind. Even though in the dream it was Heyes who was losing his mind and Kid who fell from the cliff, but I could feel it all happening, like it was happening to me. I woke in a panicked sweat and realized I was having a very bad reaction to cold medication which I will NEVER take again...And then set to work at putting that insanity into words. |
| beejay |
Posted - 03/11/2010 : 9:17:06 PM
Another short, but weird, dream.
It is after Pete Duel's death. Roy Huggins is trying to recast the series. He decides the character of Hannibal Heyes is the most important, so he casts Ben Murphy into that role. He casts Dan Blocker as the Kid. Roger Davis is in the dream, in the background. Huggins is considering casting him as the Kid as well because he needs two people to take over that part.
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I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn |
| Kwiltn |
Posted - 03/09/2010 : 1:41:38 PM
Good heavens, BJ, 38 kids!
Wish I could say that plot ideas would come to me in a dream....my well is pretty dry when it comes to challenge time. |
| beejay |
Posted - 03/06/2010 : 6:20:06 PM
I've had a few ASJ dreams since the last one but only little pieces of stories-not worth writing down.
I had a story about fan fiction writing a few nights ago that made me laugh.
Kid4ever was writing an ASJ story and showed it to me to beta. Now, if you know Kid4ever you would know she loves childhood stories and stories with children in them. In this story there was a hispanic woman who was 40 years old and had been married since she was 14. Heyes and the Kid had arrived at her house to help her out(I think that came from one of the Christmas challenges; they were going to be her angels).
Anyway, the woman has 38 children. I tell Deb we have to calculate this for her story so it will work. She has to have had twins and triplets so I need to figure out how many sets of each.
Of course the dream ends when I start doing the actual math. 
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I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn |
| Cattle Annie |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 1:48:15 PM
To Kwiltn: I day-dream about the boys as well. I love that you see beans and biscuits on your plate... good stuff. I do most of mine as I run on the treadmill (dang blasted snow), running from posses and what not. |
| Caroline |
Posted - 10/22/2009 : 11:41:58 PM
Ok...ok... I admit it, I do dream ASJ and sometimes daydream them, too. It does help with my writing and sometimes even my real life problems (I try to figure out what they would do if faced with the walk offs that I have to deal with...)
I do admit that my dreams are sometimes a bit too much to put into words for a story, but I do occasionally try to use the plots and basic lines for my writings.
(Just for the record, no I haven't called any of the walk offs out for a show down ,I doubt if any of them would get it ) |
| Kwiltn |
Posted - 09/30/2009 : 6:50:32 PM
Do day-dreams count?
Since I found this forum, and re-awakened my love of all things Curry and Heyes, I am finding myself preoccupied with thoughts of safe-cracking, posse chases and quick-draws. As I travel down the highway, I imagine two very handsome young men galloping alongside. The lemon chicken and rice I serve at dinner looks just like beans and biscuits on my own plate. My own comfortable bed becomes a blanket spread near a glowing campfire, crickets chirping.... It is all very Walter Mitty-esque. |
| Penski |
Posted - 04/18/2009 : 7:24:06 PM
Sheesh...I never had a dream like that!
I do dream my stories and, strangely enough, if a scene doesn't work, it backs up and another scene emerges until the story goes in the right direction. The reason I started writing ASJ is so a particular dream would go away and I could dream other things. (I admit - I have an obsessive personality.) Most of these dreams happen on the light rail train commuting to work when I'm not in a deep sleep.
Anyone else dream their stories or have made a story from a dream?
"Do you ever get the feeling that nothing right is ever going to happen to us again?" - Kid Curry |
| beejay |
Posted - 04/12/2009 : 9:48:43 PM
LOL Grace--sometimes I do wake up feeling as if I haven't slept much! Shenango you are welcome anytime to write these up(snirt). There are always more Ghis--but some aren't worth writing!!
I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn |
| Sister Grace |
Posted - 04/12/2009 : 2:11:29 PM
WOW, beej!  And all I get are night-sweats!
Hope you get some rest tonight!
...try to be just a little bit frivolous. - KC |
| Ghislaine |
Posted - 04/11/2009 : 6:55:05 PM
I'm not quite sure what to say except: Post more! (I enjoyed it and yes, I agree it'd make a good story.)
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This is one of my schemes... ~ Hannibal Heyes |
| Shenango |
Posted - 04/11/2009 : 4:17:12 PM
So when are we seeing these in print, beejay?
Sometimes I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe. |
| beejay |
Posted - 04/11/2009 : 2:29:22 PM
Joshua Smith is a modern day businessman who feels all the stresses of modern life. He has a high pressure job and a high pressure wife. This is simply known at the start of the dream.
He has gone out for an afternoon of escape enjoying his hobby of parachuting. Yes, he is parachuting in his business suit.
He lands in a green, dark forest. He has also landed in the past. He is found (discovered) by Wheat, Kyle and some others in the gang who assume he is Hannibal Heyes. Smith is either injured or ill and Wheat is taking control of the situation and doing all the talking. They move Smith to an Indian encampment in the forest so he can be treated.
On the way over Smith is thinking that he doesn't want to be a gang leader; he is an honest man and doesn't want to be a criminal or involved with criminals.
The gang reaches the Indians. The Kid is with the gang at this point, but only in the background.
The Indian Medicine man takes care of Smith. Apparently the Indians don't think much of the gang either, and pack up in the night taking Smith with them. They relocate at their village.
Now the Medicine man's daughter appears. She is a stereotypical 1960s television Indian Maiden, in a short tight fitting dress that has fringes, with long black hair. She looks like she has stepped out of F-Troop or Wild Wild West(actually the Medicine man resembles the medicine man in F-Troop).
She and Smith fall in love and he decides to stay with the Indians and marry her.
Well, if Smith is in the past, logically Heyes must take his place in the future. This isn't explained but the scene changes to the Smiths' penthouse apartment and Heyes has arrived there. Mrs. Joshua Smith is also something of a sixties woman: blonde hair styled up on her head, and a short blue dress--she is a cocktail hour type.
Heyes is dusty, in his cowboy clothes and black hat, and is smiling. She decides he is more interesting than the dully honest Joshua Smith and supports him in taking Joshua's place in her life.
She literally supports him as he has no way of earning a living, but she feels he is worth it as he is a lot more fun than Smith. She gives him money to gamble with and to her delight, he wins at the tables and can support himself. She decides she has a good deal going.
The dream ends with them leaving for Monte Carlo to go on a gambling trip.
I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn |
