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IT’S JUST A STARTING POINT!

Blog City Prompt: Ann Patchett says, “I never learned how to take the beautiful thing in my imagination and put it on paper without feeling I killed it along the way. I did, however, learn how to weather the death, and I learned how to forgive myself for it.” Do you agree with her or is the process different for you?

Imagination is the seed of an idea. For a writer, his/her words bring the creation of their mind into a two-dimensional reality on paper or a screen. The exact detail or closeness to the imagined thing might not be the same, or beyond their ability to express it fully.

But the truth of this concept is that imagination within out mind is terribly fluid and transitory. It can change and alter itself in an instant of logical thinking. IT’S JUST A STARTING POINT! You can write ten versions of the imagined thing and still change your mind.

It sounds to me that Ann Patchett is afraid of her own mind?

As a writer of speculative fiction, I love the absolute freedom of using imagination to create characters in worlds that are pure invention. The rules can be close to the real world or completely different and upside down. There are no rules about rules!

Writing is a kind of adventure. It should be enjoyable and satisfying, not a grieving process for what you couldn’t write.

Write on...>>>iggy

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