What Imagination Needs

Imagination and creativity are sisters at heart.  They are both elusive, sometimes scarce entities and creative types are constantly in pursuit.  So how do we attract imagination?  I am a writer and creator and I constantly seek that.

I think sometimes imagination and creativity can go stale.  Speaking for myself I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever think another creative thought again.  Here is what I know thus far.

Imagination needs noodling - 

long, inefficient, happy idling, 

dawdling and puttering."

~Brenda Ueland

I can relate to this.  Can you? 

Some of my best ideas that make it into print are thoughts, single words, phrases from a longer sentence that come to my mind while doing other things.  I’m a reader, and I read for content and ideas.  And sometimes that well goes dry too.  Perhaps it is the state of mind in which I find myself

I do know that when I detach my brain from the task at hand and noodle, as Brenda says, suddenly an idea will squeeze into view.  Sometimes it is so subtle that I must quickly capture it or it flees and may never come again.  Thus the ever-present Moleskin notebook that hides in my pocket 

So, the gist of this – imagination sometimes needs a break.  It needs to chase butterflies and rainbows, and along the way, voilà, an idea comes forth that holds a moment of freshness and perhaps brilliance.

Give your imagination a rest. 

P Michael Biggs

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