About Inspiration or Ilham and Imagination

2. STREED UP INSPIRATION ON PEN TIP

2.1. About Inspiration or Ilham and Imagination

Inspiration, in Arabic is ilham. Usually, ilham used to mention divine guidance from God which growth in heart. Possible inspiration or ilham means idea which coming from heart, for a writer, inspiration is something which move the heart to make the literary work. Arswendo 2005, 259 define inspiration or ilham as the pen sketch which make the author awakened. However to show an idea if often be any problem for beginner writer, they are sometimes complain do not stirred up inspiration and idea which often not come. “I do not think you can write a good short story without having a good story in you,” Whit Burnett 1983, 11 used to tell his class at Columbia University. “I would rather you had something to say with no technique with nothing to say.” “Something to say” is assuredly of first importance when we presume to demand the attention of a reader: we owe him no less than that. We ask his attention, perhaps an hours out of his life, and even his affection. We perform on the printed page as actors: yet at the same time, without sight or sound, the final interpretation must be the reader’s own. If our story or act, if you will has failed to interest, stimulate, or evoke some responsive emotion, he will not wish to read us again. Burnett, On Writing The Short Story, 1984, 11 Besides inspiration or ilham the effective short story come also from the sometimes daring or exaggerated uses of the imagination. Trollope 1982,3 related Universitas Sumatera Utara how, as a lonely boy, he was necessary. “He writes in An Autobiography, “I was always going about with some castle in the air firmly built within my mind…. For weeks, for months, from year to year, “he would carry on the same task of continuing this imaginary fable. “I learned in this way to maintain interest in a fictitious story, to dwell on a work created [solely] by my own imagination…. I doubt, had it not been for my practice, I should ever have written a book.” This, for writers of fiction, brings us to an essential which cannot be stressed often enough: the strength of our belief in the story we relate. One must deeply and profoundly believe in the direction of one’s imagination and, while at work, in the story waiting to be told. A writer must practice, to a profound degree, the “suspension of disbelief.” He must not only care about what he is writing, he must believe without question that he is re-creating truth, that the truth of his story is what is must be, and let one be in any doubt about that. And, if one writers as believingly as possible, the story will then ring true for the reader. And remember Kipling 1981, 8 has said, he will not succeed nor will he be read or long remembered. “When your ‘daemon’ imagination is in charge, do not try to think, consciously,” wrote Kipling. “Drift, wait, and Obey.”

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