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A new blog to contain answers to prompts |
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one. Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.  |
| Prompt: Your Imagination "My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it." Ursula K. Le Guin What are your thoughts on this quote and to what extend does your imagination play a role in your writing? ========= I think I used to be more imaginative when I was younger. Now in my old age, I might tend to be a lot more realistic. As to what extend my imagination plays a role in my writing, I think what I write follows the realism of my looking at the world with old eyes.  Imagination, however, is a unique gift, and I sometimes wonder if other living beings have it. Through imagination, we can see in our minds' eyes many possibilities in this world and beyond its immediate reality. Through imagination, we dream, empathize, and create. In fact, it is imagination that changes and reshapes the world around us. On the other hand, imagination can also alienate those of us from the world and our loved ones to a great extent. This may be because we people are vulnerable to false hopes, illusions, and pain, since we become tormented when we can't get what we can imagine. As a result, we may become depressed and unsatisfied. In a nutshell, this quote refers to imagination as being both a strength and a weakness. It makes us both human and foolish. Yet, imagination is a complex mechanism. If we can use it with one foot in reality, we can use it wisely and enjoy its power and beauty. Remember Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, J.K. Rowling, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl? Also, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Kafka and Hemingway? Even when writing a realistic story, imagination makes it much more delectable. This may be why I like reading much more than watching a movie because reading allows a lot more space to my imagination. So yes, the best writers are the most imaginative ones. And so are the writers in Writing.com.   |
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