In Responso

After reading Allison's post for January 22nd, I had this thought.

I think it may be that imagination, creativity, and inspiration are simply memories. When we create, when we imagine, we are simply stringing together former memories in new manners, uniting ideas that were previously independent.

When I write a story, I am not inventing an entire world, even when I am writing Fantasy. I rather take pieces of a world I know, people I know, things I know, and combine them in a way nobody has seen before. This new creation, a re-imagining of myth, if you will, is not completely new, but rather completely fresh.