More company and I'm excited to welcome Jane Carver to the porch today. She’s talking about imagination. One of my favorite topics since my imagination tends to run full throttle.
<h3 align="center">Harnessing Your Writer’s Imagination</h3>
As a writer, my imagination creates whatever I want.

We writers fill notebooks with ideas, pages with storybook names, jot down dire circumstances then one day, we pull out an idea from here and a name from there and put it all together.

Once I've written something I want to share, it is time to edit, hone that manuscript until there is, no doubt, what I want the reader to experience.

I'm still working at my process. And always will. Any writer who says, "I've got this down pat," is only fooling herself.

Writers are learners who constantly attend conferences, take classes, read and communicate with fellow writers as they hone their creativity.

There are no new plots--each has been told.

There are no rules to what an imagination comes up with, but there are guidelines to follow if you want that story to be the best it can.

The idea is to tell your story in a new way. The trick is to take what you learn and make it your own.

Write in a way that no one else does. Be fresh! Add tension, conflict, danger, doubt, suspense and maybe love if that's your thing.

Polish and craft the words your creativity stirs up until you have a story that begs to be read and enjoyed.

Thanks, Janie for the encouragement.
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<a href="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/jane-c-author.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-4315 alignright" src="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/jane-c-author.jpg" alt="jane-c-author" width="104" height="150" /></a>Jane Carver is a former schoolteacher, a quilter, an artist

an editor,

a dual personality author, writing adult fiction as Jane Carver and young adult fiction as Jane Grace

a blogger extraordinaire writing 4 blogs weekly...amazing!

Want to learn more about Jane or her other personality, Jane Grace? Visit her <a href="www.romances-by-janie.com " target="_blank">website for adult fiction</a> and her <a href="www.JaneGracePresents.com" target="_blank">website for young adult fiction</a>

Or stop by one of her blogs:

<a href="http://janiecarver2011.wordpress.com"><i>http://janiecarver2011.wordpress.com</i></a><i></i>

<a href="http://RomancesByJanie.wordpress.com"><i>http://RomancesByJanie.wordpress.com</i></a><i> </i>

<a href="http://JaneGracePresents.wordpress.com"><i>http://JaneGracePresents.wordpress.com</i></a><i></i>

<a href="http://WritingImagination2013.wordpress.com"><i>http://WritingImagination2013.wordpress.com</i></a><i></i>

You can also pick  up a copy of her latest releases by clicking on the covers:

<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Intense-Jane-Grace-ebook/dp/B008BKH5W2/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4317" src="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/janie-intense.jpg?w=91" alt="Janie Intense" width="91" height="150" /></a>Intense</b> (Young Adult Fiction) Sensitive subject but more about the compassion and help received afterward that makes up the story. Nova Dean dreams of going to Nationals in Debate but to do that she must beat Adam Parks and his team. Their rival is intense but not as much as the help Adam gives Nova after she's raped. Only with his help can she take one step at a time back to a life she can endure. Only with his help are the rapists caught.

<b><a href="http://www.melange-books.com/authors/janecarver/ReturnWithHonor.html" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4318" src="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/returnwithhonor.jpg?w=98" alt="ReturnWithHonor" width="98" height="150" /></a>Return with Honor </b>(Adult Fiction)

The death of Jud Longtree's best friend gives the local police chief reason enough to suspect him of murder. With the help of Lottie Amberville, they use both logic and creativity to find someone who may have murdered more than once.<b></b>