Like when they dream they are somehow tapping into another reality and seeing lives play out, the they are reframing and writing it as stories to sell.
Some examples of series that made me feel this way are the Realm of the Elderlings, gentleman bastards, red rising and the Kingkiller Chronicles (tho this one is framed that way on purpose kind of with the unreliable narrator and book within a book vibe)
Sometimes series will give me this vibe for the first book or two but then lose it, as if they no longer dream of that reality and are now just making stuff up without real context. Lightbringer and the warded man series felt like that.
Everything I’ve read by Murakami has a dream-like quality. Didn’t love his latest, but usually enjoy his writing.
This is exactly how Stephen King describes his writing process. He’s just documenting something that is already there.
Did Rothfuss ever release the third book? edit: no he didn’t fucking hell
mans competing with george rr martin and scott lynch
Brandon Sanderson just day dreams of other realities, hes at the level where he conciously can choose to see them like interdimensional cable
Stormlight archive was the first thing I thought of.
