Showtime- Writer Meredith Lorimar on Imagination

It is well-understood that a disciplined imagination serves as an essential facet in creating the lucid manuscript. Writers work in combination with both intuition and the intellect, these aspects interweave to generate, record, then carefully revise all the many sentences which cohere to guide a reader through narrative structure. Yet is imagination finished once a book is released during the final stages of publication? Is there need for a fresh application of imaginative prowess once the marketing phase begins?

Perhaps the role of “writer” in larger society comes with different expectations than for those individuals involved in performing arts? Actors and other live entertainers must spend years of their training developing the more visible aspects of a craft, as the expertise is often delivered though a present medium. An audience of these venues is left to interpret what is unfolding before their eyes — the witnessing is a component to the alchemy of an exchange.

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