Mine your imagination for gems
Writing from the Imaginative Storm is mining your imagination for gems. You’re digging in a rich lode—the gems are there, but they don’t always emerge perfectly clean and polished. In the piece below, Katerina Tana had to dig a little before the gems started to tumble out—and tumble out they did!
When you write to prompts like those we offer in our Writing Prompt of the Week gathering on Zoom, you’re generating raw material. You’re mining your imagination for gems you can polish and set into a piece of work you already have on the go, or something you’ll form in the future. Arresting images like those in Katerina’s piece only come when you let your imagination take you by surprise.
Don't go outside. Stay indoors and savor the forced paradise, the lushness of our sprawling in eternal worlds where the push-me-pull-you of the inner dialogue, a constant juggling act to navigate the cast of characters wrestling on a moment to moment basis.
The fake pearls roped around your mind, the seeming truths uttered in apparent freedom are merely an extravagance, a forced paradise of manifested identity, part of the synthetic fairyland we call our version of truth. Not an Eden but a hanging garden where we give ourselves enough rope to tie ourselves in knots, to hang.
What is inside and hiding? What dangerous seed lurks in the lushness of the wrong reality, sprawling under the spotlight, calling and cascading all at the same time, hidden in dreamscapes?
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