Chapter 7: A Sense of Wonder: Why Every Creative Writer Needs One

Each human being has an innate sense of wonder. As a child, you used yours continually without realizing you were doing so—without conscious awareness— every time you played pretend or created a mud pie or performed a cartwheel spontaneously. You were using your imagination. You were filled with wonder at being newly alive. You believed you could do or be anything.

Wonder and imagination go hand in hand. While pretending to be a prince or princess, you believed in your imaginary world. Today, as a weary adult writer; however, you may feel you have lost touch with your imaginative faculty, but it is still there.