![]() ![]() ![]() To be a good writer I think you must have a great deal of empathy. It allows us to take an imaginative stroll in someone else’s shoes. This is a capacity that human beings have to mentally detach from ourselves and experience what another person is experiencing from their point of view. Imaginative fantasy is the soul of creativity. All simply to take the story from one person’s head and implant it into someone else’s. Stories have been created in thousands of genres, millions of characters (some of whom are more famous than any living person) and billions and billions of words. Letting my brain go off in it’s own direction and return with things that haven’t been thought of yet.Īny time you walk into a library, just take a moment to stand and bathe in the collected imagination of humanity. Lots of my time spent as a writer is done walking. We usually have a moment of inspiration and go off to explore wherever the fantasy may take us. This is what most writers and artists are good at. This is when you’re able to generate new ideas from scratch and can be guided or unguided. The book Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett is a great example of this. We may spend more than a decade or two researching it and creating something that transcends the financial reward we may get for it. In order to do this, we have to imagine - we have to research and we have to create something spectacular consciously and with a lot of effort and care. Intellectual imagination is a very conscious and deliberate process.įor those of us that have a dream about a great piece of work, the one thing that we’re determined to write over the course of our lives. Is when you’re able to work from an existing plan or a definite idea and is guided towards a distinct purpose. You can take existing things and you can make them into something new. ![]() When you’re an avid reader, you’re an avid imaginer, when you’re an avid imaginer then you’re much better prepared to be a true story wrangler. It’s important that you read, the more you read, the more information you have to draw on for your imagination. You’re joining a canon of writers who already exist and who have set templates and genres. You’re creating something new from something that already exists across all of human history. You simply took the existing information (the ingredients) and made a brand new construct (the sandwich).Īs a writer you can think of yourself as a conduit for creating new ideas from existing information already in the creative sphere. If I were to offer you a penguin and dog-poop sandwich, you probably don’t have to try it to know that you won’t like it. This is what allows us to synthesise existing ideas together from existing information. They don’t function entirely independently from each other and many of them combine during the course of every day. It’s important to note that there is some overlap between each of these types of imaginaton. Intellectual or constructive imagination.The Eight subsections of imagination are: The more you understand your thought processes, the more efficiently you can work.Īccording to Murray. Then I’ll highlight how they might specifically apply to writing and your work as a writer. For those of you who enjoy additional research you can have a look for Hunter (2012). I’ll broadly explain them according to the psychological model. ‘Imagination’ by LeandroDeCarvalho on Pixabay
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