When I dream, the fantasy is reality. The weirdness is normal. None of it is strange until I fully awaken.
I write fiction, and have since childhood. I am inspired by my dreams. I crafted my Weird World universe to be a reality like the one I live in while asleep.
My favorite dreams are nightmares. Though terrible while I sleep, they prove inspiring when I awaken. My best fiction is because of them. Weird World is the horror genre accordingly.
My most inspiring dreams were during childhood. The best of these were nightmares, of course. The protagonists of Weird World are usually children accordingly. I relive the thrills of my childhood through them.
I do prefer a fight to running away. I remember in one dream when I heard the growling of a monster on the other side of a door. The unseen horror was coming after me. I was terrified. I thought I was doomed. “So be it,” my own voice told me. “Don't go down without a fight.” The monster came through the door and lunged at me. I hit it with a flurry of punches. Much to my surprise, I was winning.
Weird World is many stories. Protagonists are doomed in some of them. They are triumphant in others. Though the fiction is the horror genre, some of it is survival horror specifically.
My thematic specialty as a writer of fiction is the foot soldiers of villainy, female versions specifically. The very purpose of the archetype is to establish a standard of ordinary by which heroes can be measured. When the heroes are children... so are the foot soldiers of villainy.
As for the monsters...
They either eat the protagonist... or the child proves a hero and does what heroes do best... and slays the monster.
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