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Remember when I talked about how I fill the parts of my plot that I don’t know yet by asking “What comes next?” or “How did this happen?” Well, most of the time the answers to those questions come from my characters, and in a circular turn, these answers serve to develop the characters who give them.
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519 - Access Imagination and Intuition that Ai Can’t Touch with Angus Fletcher PhD
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“Imagination is story, story is plot, plot is plan, imagination is planning. The brain evolved imagination in order to make plans.” Anger and anxiety are threat responses, our brain wants to deal with the threat through planning, we have to use our imagination. Kids don’t have a lot of anxiety or anger because when they have a threat response, they imagine something.”
Hope requires a doable plan - when hope is gone it’s time to imagine some new possibilities.
imagination as a tool - in magick, not is it true but is it useful?
On bad days, when I felt no inspiration at all, I would set the kitchen timer for thirty minutes and make myself sit there and scribble something, anything. I had read an interview with John Updike where he said that some of the best novels you’ve ever read were written in an hour a day; I figured I could always carve out at least thirty minutes
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De-Stress Your Creative Process (With This Classical Practice)
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Your life is finite, and you should make your art. Things will get in the way and you should still make your art. Return to your art, over and over again. You will find clarity and answers as you feed this vital part of yourself. As you build and maintain a consistent practice, you will find the other parts of living a modern life seem more
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I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the non-productive ones. Beverly Pepper
Russell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)
So don’t be afraid to slow down and be inefficient if that’s what you need to do. It’s your book and your story. Enjoy it, and never be afraid to do whatever it takes to make your novel as good as it possibly can be.
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