Wattpad brings you a guest post from Jamie Magee, writer of “Insight”, a paranormal romance:
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
― John Lennon
It is absolutely insane to me how just a few simple words written by someone I will never know could reach into my soul and bring to light a sacred and seemingly universal truth. How a single written point could so beautifully illustrate the idea that we are all somehow connected to one another - each of us a part of a larger whole that we’ll never truly grasp. That is, unless we dare to dream with others. Which is precisely what Wattpad allows us all to do, right? Share our daydreams and momentarily escape into the uncharted worlds that exist only because we breathed life into them.
If you were to ask anyone who really knew me what my obsessions are (beyond music and Red Bull), they would tell you I love to seek and notice the connections in life - to take in those subtle and often fleeting glimpses, in which the universe shows how closely we can all truly relate to one another. But the noticing isn’t enough; I am obsessed with trying to express these connections in the form of vivid daydreams that eventually come to life in fate-driven love stories. All that to say this: my closest friends would tell you that I am obsessed with being a writer.
When I first began writing I was given solid advice: “write what you love, what you have a passion for, or your readers will never feel passion for your words.” That one little gem was the catalyst that let me embrace the freedom that the written word was created to express.
In that sense, it is easy for me to look back at my debut story, “Insight”, and see my passions: dreams, soul-mates, fate, and, of course, the Zodiac. Pepper those passions with anything mystical or magical and you have my attention. For the initiated, I should probably have just summed up that last bit by saying that I’m a full-blooded Scorpio!
Anyway, in my story I was able to take a dream shared by two souls and weave them into a past, present and most importantly, a future. But writing about a love that stands in the face of fate was not fulfilling enough for me; I had to know why these souls were meant for each other. What mystical powers pulled their beings through space and time each night?
This is where the Zodiac came in. Don’t laugh; while I’m sure many of you know the Zodiac signs for yourselves and any potential significant others (you simply must check for astrological compatibility, right?), you will find that once you get past the egocentric side of the Zodiac, there lie innumerable twists, turns, and other mysteries that can cause your imagination to run wild. At least, that’s what happened to me!
When you step into the pages of “Insight”, I hope to show you that the love of soul mates does not live in bliss but in unrest, that this life we live now is but a moment in the scope of our total existence, and that the Zodiac may indeed shape your characteristics or the mood of the air. However, when all is said and done, it is you who controls the outcome, you control your fate.
In the end, isn’t that what we all want? To know that we can exhibit some kind of control over the path of our lives? And yet, very few of us realize we do indeed have such power; that with every breath, with every thought, we create and guide the world around us, just as diligently as we create our own fictional worlds.
I’m very excited to share one of my passions with this amazing community!
Read Jamie Magee’s “Insight” on Wattpad:
Willow Haywood has always been trapped between the worlds of the Light and the Dark. Her waking hours are plagued by her ability to feel the emotions of those around her. No matter how inward she draws, she cannot shut out the feelings of others. Sometimes she will see images - echoes of other people and places - that she can enter to influence the emotions of people she has never met.
By night, Willow experiences her only escape from this terrible insight - entering into the world of dreams. Most of these dreams are shared in blissful silence with a stunning blue-eyed boy. But every new moon she lives through something much darker: a horrific nightmare shared by another mysterious boy who is always shrouded by shadows.
One night, this shadowy figure invades her dreams outside of his appointed time. In this new nightmare, Willow is marked; a mark which follows her into the waking world and sets her on a momentous path through light and darkness, through fragmented myth and half-truths, through past lives and disturbing family secrets, all in the face of the ever-dominant Zodiac. What she finds will endanger the lives of those closest to her and will force her to make a decision that will change her world forever.