I Is For… Imagination!
Contributed by Becky Kapjon.
According to the dictionary imagination is the action of forming new ideas or concepts of objects not present to the senses. What does this truly mean to each one of us? When asked this question each person will have a different answer.
I will tell you what imagination means to me. My imagination is my inner place where my stories live and where the visions I have for them take place. It is the place where my stories come alive. Before I start to put my stories down on paper, they play out in my head. I can see how my character will react and feel to different actions. I can also see the settings where they are taking place, so I can try to capture what they are doing. As the story unravels in my mind I start to make notes, so I don’t lose the essence of what I am about to create for my readers. I can be in the most unlikely places when I think about something that would be great in one of my stories. As I am there I can see it playing out in my story or I can hear my characters talking to me. My stories always play out as if they are a movie in my mind, so I can see how each action and reaction happens as I am developing the story before I start to write it. I let my imagination run wild in hopes of a good story.
I am working on getting what’s in my mind’s eye onto the page. Sometimes the translation takes a bit of time to get just right. I want people to be able to read the words and feel as if they are in a corner watching what is going on in the story or better yet a part of the story. I always thought it was great the way authors would paint a picture of their story, so their reader feels as if they are standing in the corner watching as it happens. My goal is to be as imaginative as they are and paint that picture with my words for my readers. I hope my imagination comes through when people read my stories. I’d love to hear how your imagination works?
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