Have you ever woken up with wild thoughts running relentlessly through your mind? Is it possible you've gone mad or maybe the stress of your life got the best of you? These thoughts that run around in your brain are mostly about unexacting people's lives? Are they about strange places? Do they have animals or rare creatures? All of these thoughts are great, even fun, when you are asleep. Some people would even call them dreams, therefore it is ok for them to take over you because we call the dreams. But what happens when you are very ugh awake? Then finding excuses for this bizarre behavior is a must! Probably your unhappy with your life or unsatisfied with your choices or maybe your life its just too damn boring, so you turn to your "imagination" to make it a bit more exciting. But is that really the case? All these questions and thoughts that run through your head when characters come to life. It begins with long conversations with unexisting people, having tea parties in Elizabethan times or even sharing a bottle of wine in the middle of Provence. But after questioning your sanity for a couple of minutes you begin to realize that the seed has been already planted in your mind, you've past the point of no return, some great, or maybe not so great story has been planted.
How do you think James Cameron felt when he started inventing a new language for blue, tall, tree worshiping people? Not very sane, but most of all not very cool. Yet he put on screen one of the most watched and talked about movies so far!
So here I come to my point, or maybe I just think I am. Imagination is most of the time just the seed for greatness. Continuing with my very good metaphor: The seed. What is a seed if it's not watered constantly? And after exhausting my cliche of a metaphor. Creation is mostly sitting in front of you in the form of a blank page all you've got to do is give it a shot, even if it's not any good, as i've proven which this very long and boring unravel of thoughts about creativity and imagination. (Maybe I'm just nuts!) So as I previously stated whatever you attempt for the first time its most likely going to be awful, but not to worry, that is why god, javeh, ala, god from scientology...invented re-writing! So just give it a go, give those people inside of your head a chance to show you strange places, foreign lands and most of all let them teach you something new about yourself, because after all, characters are the only way I know how to put my boring messy thoughts into something better and more organized. Even if it is just me that enjoys and understands them.
