Get Out of My Head!!!!

Awesome Saturday everyone! *waves* My apologies for failing to post during the holidays. I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays, whichever you prefer) and a Happy New Year. I’d love to hear what each of you did for the holidays or even share a special moment!

I had another topic I was going to post today, but then I decided to propose a question to you that I’ve been thinking about lately. Do we writers spend too much time in our heads?

I ask this because all I’ve done this week is create scenes and dialogue in my head. My kids are talking and I’m fantasizing about dialogue between my characters. My husband is rambling about work and I’m masterminding detailed love scenes in my mind. On the television is my favorite football team playing for the National Championship and I’m creating a new monster to wreak havoc on my heroine/hero.

This daydreaming got me into a spot of hot water yesterday too. My youngest son reminded me that I had promised to let him purchase an iPod Touch with his Christmas and Birthday money—he has so much money, I’ve asked for a loan *cheeky grin*—and I don’t remember having the conversation, much less agreeing to this purchase! Uh oh! I’ve been forgetting a lot of things lately. But this is a big one. My oldest is backing him, arguing vehemently that I agreed, which is strange because they never agree on anything—ever. It’s like a secret brother law or something that Moms don’t get.

Anyway, I said, I never promised that and I’m thinking to myself “That’s a boatload of money!” And we always have family meetings before they spend a boatload of money like that. So…to back up his defense he commences to remind me where we were, what we were doing and the exact conversation when I agreed to the SNAFU. And somewhere along the way of the retelling I have an “A-ha!” moment because that was when the heroine in my head said to the hero, “Show me how much you want me.”

Big freaking gulp!

Yep, you guessed it, hot-freaking-water! Now, how do I get myself out of it? I can’t confess to an eight year old that I was thinking about risqué dialogue that ended up in sexual positions during our conversation. So, it looks like we’re going to be the proud owners of an iPod Touch! LOL It could be worse, I could have agreed to harboring a reptile or an arachnid in my home. *shudders violently*

So, again, my question…do you as a writer spend a lot of time in your head, daydreaming, spinning scenes and dialogue? Or do I spend too much time in my head and need psychiatric help to coax me out of my fictional world? ;-) Seriously the latter would never happen even if everyone told me I needed intervention, because quite frankly some days I like the fiction I create better than the world I live in. =) But, I would love to stop forgetting so many conversations! Advice anyone?

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!