Never underestimate the power of imagination. Never overestimate it, either. Take me, for instance, Willow Tate. I’m thirty-four and I can almost support myself and my family’s Manhattan apartment by writing and illustrating graphic novels for young adults. I’m good; they sell. I sign them with the non-gender specific Willy Tate, but they are all my work, my inspiration, my ideas. Sometimes I write not so good poems, too. And I’ve made candles, painted murals, built birdhouses, and strung beaded necklaces for friends. But that’s creativity, not Creation.

Think about it. The screen writer can create an entire new world and make it come to life in a movie, so real you think you are there on the desert or the mountain or some other planet. The artist can paint flowers you can almost smell. A romance writer can tell a love story so touching you weep into your hot chocolate. They all come out of thin air and active minds.