this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
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so... if it's only for creating visuals for yourself and not for showing anyone else... I already have a perfectly fine imagination that I've been using for that purpose for as long as I can remember. Maybe it's useful for these people who I've been told have no imagination, but to me, it seems awfully redundant.
So artists who photoshop images they find on the internet into a collage to visualize their idea have no imagination? Artists do this all the time especially if they need to communicate their idea to others and get little time to conceptualize their ideas on paper.
there are different kinds of imagination, and there are different kinds of being creative… just because someone isn’t visual doesn’t mean they aren’t creative: especially when you’re talking about writers