Most fiction writers will confirm that good writing springs from imagination. Notwithstanding many other necessary and important facets of authoring a book, nothing can be as good as what imagination can bring out in a writer: the outright, almost unabashed simplicity and originality of a plot.

Commitment, discipline and motivation to finish an otherwise arduous task, plus innate talent and the perseverance to cultivate make up a good writer. All these coupled with imagination is what the writer is all about.

Imagination exudes uniqueness. Inventing concepts that never existed before, putting life into characters that the world has never known and putting into action certain events that never crossed in the real world always make a good read.

Imagination, say those who have it, is infinite. It stirs not only the writer, but the reader as well. When a story successfully captures the emotions that it intends for its readers to feel such as excitement, anger, pain, bliss, it doubtlessly comes from a creative thinker.

The creative and imaginative author makes sure that she or he does not break the rules, but does not fully and blindly submit to them, either. The laws of the writing craft are best learned with a questioning, playful mind. Bending the rules, they say, is not fully breaking the law. It can mean leading the way to new, better lessons. Similarly, an author should never be hindered by the boundaries called the "ways to write good fiction." Talent and capacity should be allowed release without restraint and never confined to any limit. In the process, the rules will find where they should be in the writer's world.

Courage is found among the most renowned fiction writers and novelists. Armed only with the product of their imaginations deliberately crafted in writing, they dared to take a step forward and never looked back. Truth is, their stories have not been fully finished yet, but they could not contain the imagination in themselves and had to tell the world about it. Faith, that the endeavor will succeed, came in thereafter.

In the middle of writing a novel, an author will inevitably stumble across several challenges and problems in the plot that necessitate solutions. Enhance that story requires a writer to exercise the imagination, this time to determine new sets of issues that can be incorporated into the plot, for the final output to be at its best, as the writer envisions it to be.

Perhaps the biggest challenge, according to a writer, is for humans to delimit their freedom to imagine, and therefore building walls against their full capacity to create better and develop more.

One's refusal to go beyond what he or she is given with obstructs from inventing new ideas that are in fact better and more useful. Failing to visualize what can be done beyond what already has been is tantamount to resting to the present capacity and not nurturing it to the fullest. In a writer's perspective, the lack of imagination is indeed the lack of a good story.