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Many of us in the writing profession take our imaginations for granted, me included. I’ve always had it and these thoughts are as much a part of me as the beat of my heart.  Without imagination my stories would be as riveting as a plumber’s manual. But what is imagination?  Where does it come from?  Are we simply born with it? Writers take a seed of thought and fabricate a story around it. The events and people we create could happen exactly as we portray them. Take Jules Verne’s submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ? Or his novel, Paris in the Twentieth Century where he describes subways, gas stations, fax machine? What about any number of other authors who accurately portray things far before their time? I don't want to be in a world without imagination. It can take you to exciting, amazing places. One very respected 18 th century philosopher acknowledged that nothing is more free than the human imagination. “Our minds hav...

by Amanda Forester I can be perfectly logical during the day when I'm at work or taking care of the kids. There is something about writing reports, doing dishes, or finding where the cat puked by stepping in it that keeps you grounded. But at night, when everyone else is fast asleep, the veneer of practicality slips and I can go from no nonsense mama to raving neurotic in 2.5 seconds. Bumps in the night. It doesn't take much more than an unfamiliar sound to send my imagination into overdrive. A thump downstairs couldn't possibly be the cat jumping down from the counter, oh no, it is sure to be a homicidal fiend, who broke into my house and is even now creeping up the stairs. Closer, and closer he comes. I swear I can hear his footsteps on the stairs and the jangle of chains. My heart racing, I grab my pepper spray, burst open the door and find... the cat. The soft scratch noise is not the occasional bird that lands on my roof, but the presence of mice... no rats... no roden...