Eeks! There's a Hulk in my Dream!

Yes, I will confess I recently dreamed about Mark Ruffalo playing Hulk/Bruce Banner.

Not sure why I had that dream.

Not really sure why I dream about anything I dream about. What I had for dinner may have had some influence. Although, really, it shouldn't. I'm a vegaterian. Only not legalistically. I had to be in limited to what I can or can't eat. I'm more of a in-the-spirit-of-the-law vegaterian...who buys milk from Whole Foods becuase it's hormone-free. And, surprisingly, cheaper than Wal-Mart.

Alas, I had this dream. About Mark Ruffalo being Hulk. Odd, but true.

The weird thing is it'd been a good week or two since I read the Entertainment Weekly Comic-Con article about the new Avengers movie so it's not as if I had superheroes on my brain. Yet what I read must have lingered in my subconscience to create an interesting dream. I hadn't been too sold on the replacement of Edward Norton.

Then I had a dream.

Now I'm convince this was a smart casting move.

Isn't it amazing how at first something doesn't make sense to us, but over time, it makes more and more sense.

Author Melanie Dickerson mentioned this sorta yesterday in the Seekerville comments section when she was talking about how her editor made all these suggestions for changes to her book two medieval fairy tale romance. At first Melanie wasn't too gung-ho about the changes. It's amazing how time and several hours of work changed her perspective.

I think that's part of marturing as a writer.

When I first joined online writing groups, one thing I constantly heard was so-and-so say X but I'm not doing it because "it'll mess with my voice." Of course, the flip side was the writer who did everything her CPs or contest judges advised, which totally messed with her voice. The policy of all or nothing.

Learning what advice to take and what to ignore is part of maturing as a writer.

So here I am. Dreaming about superheroes. Listening to my writing mentors. And trying to figure out where my 12-year-old daughter should go to college because she "wants to be a superhero" when she grows up. Which I have to say is a rather grand idea. Maybe I'll be a superhero when I grow up. And I want my power to be the abililty to put thoughts in other people's minds to make them do what I want them to do.

Yes, I have spent much time pondering what superpower I'd like to have.

So what about you? Are you looking forward to the Avengers movie? Or at least Green Lantern?

And if yoiu could have a super-power, what would it be? And why?