Down the Rabbit Hole

Imagination and the Constant Storyteller

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DAY 737 March 14, 2016
Prompt: Lisa Cron, author of Wired for Story claims our brains are hard wired “to think in story.” She adds, “Without stories, we are toast.” Do you believe she is correct and do you find yourself thinking in stories?

I'm not sure that I "think in stories" but writing helps we find clarity and process most things in my life. I associate the word "stories" with fiction though, and the majority of what I write lately would fall squarely into the non-fiction genre so its a little hard for me to draw that parallel. Without writing though, I would certainly be "toast". It gives me a way to keep myself in check. It gives me an escape and a creative outlet. It also saves me oodles and oodles of money I might otherwise need to devote to expensive therapy sessions!


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DAY 1216: March 14, 2016
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” - Albert Einstein As a writer, poet, or artist what do you have to say about this statement.

Before he was a best selling author, Wally Lamb taught creative writing at my high school. I had him in my freshman year. He told us, "write about what you know"...and it stuck with me. Knowledge about the subjects we write about gives them a credibility, gives them a foundation. Its like building a house, it needs a solid foundation. How we decorate that house, or tell the story, that's imagination. Imagination is color and texture. Imagination is also harder to come by as adults. I watch my daughter, her young imagination is so much more fluid and dynamic than mine. I think as we grow and mature, we have to engage our imaginations less and less in our daily grind. It gets a bit rusty. When I write my fiction, I get to stretch those imaginative muscles. Its freeing because it no longer binds us to the limits of knowledge and facts.



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