05-10-2012, 02:51 PM
Everyone has an imagination to some degree. It's an invaluable tool. Common sense though, seems to be sadly underrated as something useful.
And agreed, it's the emotions we can draw on and use in pieces that give it that believable quality, not first hand experience, which if you're writing about vampires for example, you definitely won't have.
And agreed, it's the emotions we can draw on and use in pieces that give it that believable quality, not first hand experience, which if you're writing about vampires for example, you definitely won't have.
"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them." - Friedrich Nietzsche