Strange dream of the week

[annathepiper]

I think I had what arguably could be my first "trying to be a professional writer" dream this morning. Apparently, Dream Me was trying to sell a manuscript to Teresa Nielsen Hayden--but it was a manuscript that seemed to be a retelling of a John Scalzi novel, only from Persephone's point of view. But Dream Me was waffling about the whole concept, too, and as I awoke, I found myself thinking about backing off selling the manuscript and just calling it the longest piece of Scalzi fanfic ever.

I am amused that my subconscious decided to latch onto Scalzi as the "other writer" in this scenario, given that whatever story Dream Me was working with was not Old Man's War, the only thing I've read by him to date. Neither was the retold version Queen of Souls, either, my Persephone story.

I should, I guess, be taking this as a sign to raise the priority on reading the two other Scalzi novels I've just bought--The Ghost Brigades and The Android's Dream--though he's going to have to wait until I'm done with Cory Doctorow. ;) (General note: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town? Excellent. More on this to come.)

And, clearly, I'm twitching to get started on editing Queen of Souls, too!