Imagination is a
gift, it can take us anywhere.
But
where does it come from? I like to think that it’s the mind playing; and everyone
needs to play – time to explore possibilities, or the impossible...!
It’s
true that stories are often inspired by, or even based on real life, but once
the imagination kicks in, that’s when the magic really happens, when anything
is possible. And if that story strikes a
chord, then you, the reader are drawn in, and feel that you are part of the
story, with everything else disappearing from consciousness, the story is reality – for that magical
time that you’re truly lost in a book.
Reading a story
is really sharing in someone else’s imagination, the writer has
captured a moment, or many moments of their imagination, and caught the magic
in print for all to share. It is said that everyone has a book inside them, and
that may be true, but the trick is to capture that book in the written word, to
save it and share it. And that’s not as easy as it might sound. A story can
flash through the imagination, and be gone just as suddenly, the trick is to
sneak up on ideas, allow the imagination to wonder about, without the threat of
a pen or keyboard ready to capture it... sometimes an idea has to hang around
for a while before it’s ready to be written down.
#LostinaBook
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