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I fell that you are right we are all different I am not much of a writer but
I enjoy using my imagination I some time start of a day dream wile at work start writing and some have said to slow it down but it comes so quick that if I cant keep up I well lose parts of it so that has me trying to cram as much and as fast as I can its funny I write my wife a note then ask her if she read it and she says I cant read it
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Hi Wildbill,
As a young child I had an imagination that my parents always said extended further than my years. Sometimes, it got me into trouble and sometimes I got that look, the one you know that says, is this child crazy or what. I also had daydreams of what I would do with my life long before I would have the opportunity to do anything about it. It seemed at times that my life was all turmoil from which at times I was desperate for release but at other times it inspired me greatly. As a child I was always writing or had my head in a book. I was fascinated with fiction of any kind and would often lose myself for days on end in the story I was reading at the time. Unfortunately, at this time in the early fifties a vivid imagination and a tendency to day dream were considered strange behaviour for a young child and sometimes cause for referral.
Even now as an adult in my twilight years I still have a vivid imagination and use it in my writing whenever the mood takes me. For me, it is a rare gift that allows me to venture into places where I have never been. To write about things that I have never seen and to empathise with emotions I have never experienced. I am not the norm and never have been, and there is nothing wrong with that. If you look at some of the World's most adventurous authors Wilbur Smith for one. His splendid, vivid and exquisite narratives about the wild and wonderful continent of South Africa is spell bounding and brings home unbelievably his rare gift of imagination. Others, just as famous write about things that they could never experience and probably wouldn't want to when one reads Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" or "The Exorcist" by William Peter Blatty.
Being able to write is truly a wonderful thing that allows someone to be whatever they want. So don't ever give up your day dreaming or your imagination. I can tell from your comment that it gives you great pleasure and without it you would not be you. All my life I have carried with me a small booklet in which I jot reminders whenever I see or hear things that I like or could use in my writing. Maybe this could work for you?
Good writing
Regards
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Well put.
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