I wrote about an opening line that came to me a couple of weeks ago.  I’ve been making slow progress on it, with about 600 words written.  There’s an issue that’s been holding me back — specifically how do I introduce the idea that the female character references Chicago in a way that suggests that as a “name” for her.

The solution, and much more, came to me somewhere in the last eight hours — those are my sleeping hours.  And I have no idea whether it was a dream, or an actual thought I had in a fuzzy moment of consciousness.  All I know is that I need to go write it down now.  It’s a scrap of dialog that may just get me over that hump and lead to a few more things.