I find it fascinating that C.S. Lewis came up with his novels with just the picture of the faun in the snow carrying an umbrella. Or how Stephanie Meyer wrote the Twilight series after waking up from a dream with just the image of two people lying in a meadow together. Or how J.K. Rowling was on a delayed train trip when the idea of a young boy going to wizard school came to her. Images are powerful and sometimes we don't know what they are supposed to mean, but I also respect any artist that is willing to question the images that come into their mind and respond to them.
Though people argue that there is no possible chance to be original, I don't completely agree because on one hand it is true that everything that we know is the sum of ideas and experiences that have been poured into our own lives from the world around us, but on the other hand I believe that we can add our own individual originality to stories. A perfect example of this was provided in class by professor Leeper when he explained the many times the living, dying and rising again story has been tweaked to fit the mold of many images that have popped into a storyteller's head.
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