From Dreamer to Achiever: Unleashing Your Imagination for Writing Success

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What separates the average from the great in film and television?

Imagination.

Read on to learn what is imagination and how to increase yours!

What Is Imagination?

If you can define something you are more in control of it. Do you have a definition of Imagination?

When we experience imaginative writing what do we see?

Something that is original, new, and exciting. How so?

Imaginative writing contains ideas, characters, goals, and story complications (and much more) that are inventive and fresh. Imaginative writing has twists, scenes, and solutions to story obstacles, for example, that stun with their ingenuity and cleverness. The hallmark of imaginative writing is the unexpected. One goes, “Wow! That is so clever. What will happen next?!” Imaginative writing captivates and excites us. “A” level writers paint bright colors of imagination on their story canvases.?

The opposite of imaginative writing is stale, cliched, old, dull, boring. Predictable.

Definition of Imagination

Imagination is a creative type of integration.

Imagination is the mental ability to join known things into new and inventive ideas, technology, and art works, etc.

For example, sand and heat are combined to make glass. Iron and coke to make steel. A shoe, knife, and poison are combined to become Rosa Kleb’s secret weapon in From Russia with Love. Star Trek fused known elements such as westerns and space technology to help create wildly imaginative worlds and stories.

Read more about the many elements used to create the iconic Star Trek franchise. ?

Study the following literary examples of (in their day) powerful imagination. Each fused known (and often disparate) elements into a new exciting combination:

Click here to read how James Bond, Hercule Poirot, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Scrooge McDuck, Ayn Rand, Ibsen, and Shakespeare are imaginative and 8 tips of how you can boost your imagination.