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So one night a while ago, it happened. It was the most astounding thing! I woke up from a dream in the middle of the night with a plot in my head—a fantastic, delightful plot. My bleary brain tried to wrap around the thing, and I am sure I mumbled to myself, “It’s so brilliant!� as I sleepily wrote this incredible new idea down on a piece of paper.

We all know the famous story of how TWILIGHT came to be. The book that changed Stephenie Meyer’s life came to her in a dream, just like the one I’d had. She wrote it down and the rest was history. And now, like her, I had just had one of those life-changing dreams.

But the thing is, I was very sleepy when I wrote this idea down, so I forgot for a few weeks that I’d even had that nighttime revelation, and then when I remembered it, I couldn’t remember what plot I’d dreamed up. I scrambled to find that piece paper and could not locate it anywhere.

Desperation gripped me. That brilliant, beautiful idea was missing. What had it been? Had I just thrown it away? If only I remembered! My career-making book had slipped out of my grasp, just like that, perhaps never to return!

And then, after months and months had passed, I did something unusual: I cleaned my apartment.

That’s when I found it.

Yes, it was the long-lost piece of paper.

Finally, the day had arrived. Finally, I could read and recall the brilliant plot my sleeping brain had devised that fateful night all those months ago. So I read the paper, my heart pounding in anticipation.

It said:

“A man begins traveling to alternate universes to kill alternate versions of himself in order to increase his power. One of his alternate selves fights back and must kill him first.�

It was a great idea.

You know, when it was a movie called THE ONE starring Jet Li. Apparently, I was very, very sleepy that night, after all.

So, I was not able to pull a Stephenie Meyer, alas. I must content myself with just writing normal, non-dream-inspired books like INSIGNIA. And at some point, I suppose, I should probably rent THE ONE.