Strange dream, but it opened my eyes.

Whether you believe writing comes from the subconscious mind or from the collective unconscious it's fair to say you often channel rather than create.

One simple note before I answer, you don't decide to be a writer, at least for me; I've never decided to write, it just happens naturally..sometimes I feel that breathing is a duty, a heavy one but writing is what I do in order to survive.

In my dreams, I'm always faced by a faceless stranger, now strangers are my favorite people and the word 'stranger' in itself is my third favorite word on the list but the first word I've ever liked, not to drift away from the subject; this faceless stranger appears in my dreams and he says one line, always..one simple odd line, things like:

guilt is a trip down to memory;

An expensive capitalist son of a bitch

With fancy bottles of wine and cheap bitter beer

Or

And two nights ago..I left her..

Because I said your name four times a day, six days a week.. and isn't it ironic?

Or

I stumble in the darkness of a tiny mattress that always fails to contain my massive savings of daylight questions..

You get my point by now, so this faceless strangers always manages to begin a plot for me, shakes me and wakes me and throws me off my bed forcing me to use his lines and scribble a poem including these odd sentences in the middle, end or beginning..my poems turn out fine but my stranger still comes back and demands a sleepless night every once and a while..

if this does not make sense to you then I just answered correctly because it shouldn't make sense it should feel right, your dreams, plots, novels and very loud demanding character :)

Writer's block - now that's a subject worthy of discussion! :-)