Musings of a Chocoholic Romance Author: Imagination...

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Imagination...

Doncha love imagination? Being creative? Oh, what a sad place the world would be if we couldn't dare to dream, day dream, create, imagine, pretend. Daily drudgery would have no respite from the gloom that would accompany such a joyless world.

Take, for example, this:

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Her Royal Highness Laura the Scattered of Mabe Burnthouse
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

I won't tell you how many names I went through before this one caught my attention. The other peculiar aristocratic titles I bypassed were just as odd, just as creative as this one. While I played, I couldn't help the grin that spread from ear to ear across my face.

Imagination.

Creativity.

Vital components to writing-- any genre.

What a wonderful gift is imagination, our ability to dream, to create.

Here's to an imaginative, creative, dreamy 2007! Happy New Year!

1 comment:

Laura Hamby said...: Here's the link to find your own Peculiar Aristocratic Title: http://www.masquerademaskarts.com/memes/peculiartitle.php; 7:15 PM

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Never throw up on an editor. ~Ellen Datlow

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