imaginary journey

Have you ever imagined yourself in a different world, journeying with your horse through vast forests and deserts that you can only cross at night, by the dazzling starlight? Well, now you have!

first posted at http://opheliasfiction.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/imaginary-girl-and-her-horse/

the red bridle series

Sometimes fiction ideas begin with detailed images. These can either be imagined scenes that I seem to come into in the middle of the action, or images that come about as I draw.

imagination

I remember thinking, when I was thirteen, that I wanted to stay the same age forever. I was aware that the ability to dream and imagine seemed to become more elusive the older I got. I was not willing to give up these imaginary worlds that were as rich as the everyday one. As Ursula Le Guin puts it, rather starkly, 'The creative adult is the child who has survived.'

dragon in snow