One strategy or activity that stimulates my imagination is to look outside and imagine the things I’m trying to add to a story in my head and imagine how they would effect the real life environment such as the trees. For example when I used a polar bear in my diorama project for the “The Veldt” story I had imagined how the polar bear would walk to the lake from the forest and imagined how it would walk and created a mini other story in my head.
Some skills I have developed to make my creative activities is to read over the story that I’ve written and imagine that it’s the first time I’m reading it and see if it makes sense. I also get someone else to read over my work to make sure it makes sense if I’m not sure myself.
