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This week: Imagi-nation Made Real Edited by: Fyn  
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Who says paper worlds
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in their binding
Are not ones that make you feel.
For sometimes our greatest lessons
Come from those with ink for skin,
Who reach beyond the page
To take our hand and pull us in.~~Erin Hanson
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. ~~Robert Fulghum
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~~Mark Twain
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. ~~Ronald Reagan
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture. ~~Ken Robinson
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ~~Albert Einstein
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine
and at last you create what you will. ~~George Bernard Shaw
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! ~~Dr. Seuss
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~~Sylvia Plath
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Imagination. Never a stumbling block, but the stepping stone that makes the unwritten word fill pages, that creates entire worlds in a tea cup and puts two people with absolutely nothing in common in an untenable situation and a romance is born! We've been imagining things since our childhood days and what is writing but a glorified game of playing 'let's pretend'?
Ever heard someone say, "I've got no imagination!" Chalk on a blackboard squeegees! Every single person has an imagination - it may be hibernating, but we all have one. Elsewise, how would we ever plan for a future? Logic plays a part, certainly, but it is the imagination that fuels the dream! It is imagination that 'knows' that perfect home, the partner that is our 'other half' and the job that is our ultimate fit. Just as in life, imagination is what puts creates characters, puts them in a scenario in a place we envision!
Writers may exist in the US or France or Oz, but they live in the Imagi-Nation. The place with its banner flying emblazoned with a quill and scroll, the place where elves consort with weebles, giants pussyfoot around ants and antelopes and heroes have dented armor and still save the day. We are connected by the writing bonds and they are stronger than border disputes, varying perspectives on (basically) anything and color is relegated to windswept seas, wildflower meadows and sky-spanning rainbows. Stories are the children of experiences. Good, bad, horific or mind-blowing ... even a nonfiction book begins as a 'what if?' It proceeds to 'If this, then this, that or the other thing.' It culminates in a triumphant, "I did it!' And in ImagiNation, larks sing, trumpets sound and the ground quakes!
Books, poetry, fables, short stories, tales, myths and epics are all born in the wisp of a dream, planted in fertile dreamsoil and watered by wishes and tears. Here at WDC, that 'home' we talk about, meander around and discover life-long friendships in, is a virtual space between two ions in cyberspace, yet we DO call it a home, go there and meander around because the concept behind that dream has become. It is real.
The Skin Horse and the rabbit in the book The Velveteen Rabbit have a conversation
“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'
'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.
'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'
'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'
'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
Playing with an idea, rumbling it around, bouncing it off a few walls and ceilings, crumpling it up, squashing it flat and then committing it to words is how a dream become a reality. Ever heard of a 'dream board'? It is where you write down dreams to help you focus on making them a reality. I have wooden books piled around my desk. Each has a title written with a Sharpie on its spine. I paint over it in gold when it is published.
My daughter gave me a wooden plaque this Christmas past of a poem by Erin Hanson that reads:
“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson
I remember being afraid to leave a terrible relationship, because I didn't know what to do. I remember being afraid to write because I'd been told for so long that it was a waste of time and that no one would want to read anything I wrote. I remember being afraid of so many things. Then, one day, I looked beyond the fears to the dreams that lay waiting beyond them -- over the bridge to What-If Land, Maybeville and the Village of Dreams. The possibilities eventually became more important than the fears: of falling, of failure or of finding an uncertain truth. Halfway across that bridge, it disintegrated, and lo and behold I found out this Robin did, indeed, have wings. Granted, I flew like a light-drunk moth, but I flew, landed, bounced and flew again.
(The quote at the top of my list of quotes is by the same young lady --only at that time, I didn't know she wrote the 'But what if you fly?' poem because I had yet to find the source for it. Love how things have a way of coming full circle!)
If you love to write, have a passion for the written word, write. Write, write, write, write and write some more. Never stop. Believe in yourself and your words. It will be the best thing you can do for you! Let alone the rest of us!
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