My New Novel Plot Up and Running--Thanks To A Dream!

So, I've found recently that a lot of my plots have staled and I haven't quite been able to get back into them or decide what to write or anything.

Then the other night, about a week or a week and a half ago probably, I had a dream that flowed pretty well. When I got up in the morning, I quickly jotted down all the major points that I had dreamt about and left to go to work. When I got back home, I reread what I had written and thought about it and I thought it sounded like a somewhat interesting plot idea!

I wasn't really quite sure about the idea (it involved shape shifters and I tend to stay away from things like that), so I consulted with one of my favorite novel consultants....Jennifer N.. Jenn seemed to like the idea, and one of my other friends really liked the idea and helped me brainstorm to work out some kinks in it, so I decided to run with it.

I'm pretty excited about it. I haven't fully "gotten into" this novel just yet since it's still in the beginning stages. I've only written chapter 1 so far and brainstormed. I'm still completely clueless about the ending. All I know is that my character ends up in one heck of a bind.

I don't really want to reveal the entire plot here (I'm very picky about sharing my plots and usually only do so with a handful of people because it always changes so much), so I won't bother to post the dream, but I'll leave you all with a rough little summary that will give you a clue what everything's about:

Jahzara (aka Zara) is an African girl trying to be normal, but she has a secret—a secret that sets her out from the rest. Like only a couple thousand other people in the world, she’s a shifter, and, like all shifters, she’s expected to train to become a leader. Her tribal elder takes her to a school that was founded especially for this purpose (it’s a flying ship, similar to the one from Treasure Planet in the attached picture), but while she’s there she runs into another shifter that seems a little TOO much like herself. His name is Ansel and, from all appearances, he seems fairly identical to her. He speaks French as his native language (being from France), he likes the same things she likes, and they’re both carnivore shifters, landing them on the same level of the ship. But there’s one slight difference—he’s not really a shifter, he’s a djinn. More importantly, he’s HER djinn, for now. So when acts of violence and aggression break out among the students, culminating in some “accidental” deaths, Zara begins to wonder just who else might have a djinn—and what exactly that djinn was saying. But her quest becomes deadly when, in destroying the djinn in disguise as a little girl, Zara finds the whole ship is turned against her and a mutiny is under way. Now it’s a matter of how long she can survive before fate catches up to her—or has it already?