![]() ![]() ![]() What tools or companies did you use, and what experience did you have? What do I want to say and how do I want to say it. To me, it’s not the why as much as the what and the how. I think anyone with the drive and passion to write a novel will do so. Compulsion, maybe? Certainly a desire to share the stories I want to tell. You know, I’d been writing for years before I ever thought to ask myself that question. ![]() But these three worlds aren’t as distinct as he thinks, and they all come together to help him in ways he never expected. By day, Jake is a middle schooler navigating through friendship, bullies, and hormones, at home his father and little sister are addressing their grief in their own peculiar ways, and at night Jake has adventures in his lucid dreams. When he becomes a lucid dreamer, he looks to his dreams as a way to escape from reality, but instead his emotions chase after him and force him to confront his deepest fears. Life has moved on but he is still damaged and angry in ways he can’t control and often scare him. Jake, Lucid Dreamer is the story of a 12-year-old boy who has never fully dealt with his grief after the loss of his mother four years earlier. He lives in Maryland with his wife and two sons. Naiman writes magical realism for children under his own name and humorous medical fiction for adults under his pen name, David Z Hirsch. ![]()
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