yes! I get premises from dreams too! Thank you, Subcoscious! 😉

When I was younger, I wrote as escapism. When I was a teen and into my early twenties, I wrote to capture flitting images and scenes that captivated my mind. Now, I write because I love piecing a story together, and oddly enough, because I love how difficult it is. This is a life where I will never stop learning, never stop growing, and the challenge invigorates me. 🙂 But I really do love structuring the story and trying to fit the characters together even if they promptly ignore me once I’ve started drafting!

Thanks for the great post, as usual!

That can be a problem. “Funny lines” aren’t all that funny without context. Often I find that the things that make me laugh happen late in a book series when the characters are really established and everything merges in a higher unit.
Like in How I Met Your Mother, when they started referencing things that had happened earlier. That was hilarious. (Until those final seasons when those were the only funny jokes …)

My problem is that I keep writing funny lines even if the genre doesn’t call for it 🙁