Writing - Slacken Imagination

 Have you found yourself thinking that you've run out of imagination? Where is the next idea coming from? How do full-time artists do it? Even how brilliant is she/he. In fact, the problem is that we live in a world where information and opinion flood the senses 24/7. Our minds follow paths through that plethora of noise and favour some ideas and facts more than others. When someone suggests that you 'think outside the box' or indulge in some 'blue-sky thinking', they are just asking you to allow the strictures on your thinking to be released, or slackened off to allow in alternative ideas. 

Of course, that may be a little scary. Stepping away from conventions may entail attracting criticism, a factor no human is truly happy accepting. 

Like the box above. The sides aren't straight. The shading is not complete. I don't see what you are getting at. 

The short answer is that there is no right answer. The idea is that you take from the sketch what you want to take. 

You all know what this curly line represents. You may attach, colour, breed, situation and more, but the style you are happy with emerges from your experiences and preferences. 

In the visual arts you are free to copy life or make representations of life in the form that satisfies your imagination and artistic desires. Where did Munch see the 'Scream' or Dali his melting clocks? 

Similarly, when writing we are as free as a visual artist to create situations as we feel are appropriate to your narrative. 

God Bless