Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Imagination Running Wild

Motivational Monday! Author L. Frank Baum , born on this day back in 1856, once said (regarding his youthful audience's expanding imaginations): "Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization...I believe that dreams- day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing- are likely to lead to the betterment of the world." Are you a writer who is shaped by imagination and daydreaming in order to creates, or are you more like someone whose imagination first needs stimulating through the creations of others?



Is there anything new under the sun? What is imagination?

quote: noun
noun: imagination; plural noun: imaginations
the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses.
Reference:https://www.google.com/search?q=define+imagination&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8


I get ideas, they form when I'm busy doing some type of work. Then, I might use a setting I'm familiar with for some reason. I created a setting for a library in a story I am writing at home. I had as much fun creating the form of the library in a drawing as I did writing the story. (it isn't finished and it isn't online.) I've never been in a library that is particularly arranged like the one I drew.

I have a background in horses so when I write about the Adventures of Bea, Meagan and Neil I write about things I know but the stable environment is made up. the adventure is not one I ever experienced. I do struggle with character descriptions sometimes because I have known a lot of people in my time on the earth so I don't want my characters to necessarily conform to someone I might have known. Plus, there are only so many character descriptions to draw on in life: fair, dark, brown, blue eyes, female, male, this is why most books published contain the statement: The characters or facts in this story are fictitious. Resemblance to people or facts are coincidental. I'm reminded of the saying: There is nothing new under the sun."

My chanters are usually involved in action long before I figure out how they look. then I go back and put in descriptions.

When watching a movie or reading a book the scenes make me wonder where these authors got their ideas? Just yesterday our family went to see the second "Guardians of the Universe" ( I never watched the first one yet.) It was so funny. I can't help but wonder if one of the writers had a run in with a raccoon sometime in life.

I think everyone uses imagination in their life. Whether they read or not. Recently, a statement in the news said, "We are in a new machine age." The broadcaster was talking about how technology is bounding along. It seems that new ideas pop up constantly driving us further and further into a new and easier way of life. We cannot possibly keep up financially with new products. Even as I work on my own stories, blogs, fiction or news I have a naggy little voice who says, "what for there is so much out there now". One year I read 60 books or more. I ignore it and write on.