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beejay
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 Posted - 04/11/2009 : 2:12:17 PM
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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
Forum Admin
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Posted - 04/11/2009 : 2:29:22 PM
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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 |
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Shenango
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USA
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 Posted - 04/11/2009 : 4:17:12 PM
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So when are we seeing these in print, beejay?
 
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Ghislaine
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Posted - 04/11/2009 : 6:55:05 PM
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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 |
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Sister Grace
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 2:11:29 PM
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WOW, beej! And all I get are night-sweats!
Hope you get some rest tonight!
...try to be just a little bit frivolous. - KC |
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beejay
Forum Admin
USA
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 9:48:43 PM
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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 |
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Penski
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USA
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 Posted - 04/18/2009 : 7:24:06 PM
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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 |
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Kwiltn
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 09/30/2009 : 6:50:32 PM
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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. |
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Caroline
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 10/22/2009 : 11:41:58 PM
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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 figutre 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 ) |
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ASJ writing and dreams
