Posts for January 2009

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Jan
6

2009

Just Imagine! Cultivating Creative Minds

“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”

—Anatole France

Creativity is the metaphoric power of a nine-year-old who calls her unkempt Shih Tzu a “dirty ol’ dust mop.” It’s the vision of a photographer who sees Easter Island sculptures in a series of back-alley shadows. And it is the inventiveness of a gardener who feels the stirrings of a story after digging up an arrowhead.

In Writers INC, writer Randall VanderMey captures the essence of creativity in the following scenarios: