Creative Reveries of Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton is, of course, a well-known writer of children's fiction. Her prolific works ranged from nursery stories, the pixies tales, circus and farm stories, stories of Noddy, the adventures of Famous Five, Secret Seven, Adventurous Four, etc. All these were tightly knit around characters with whom children could identify.
The interesting aspect of her genius was that much of what she wrote was not consciously created. In a letter to a friend she wrote:
"I shut my eyes for a few minutes, with my portable typewriter on my knees; and I make my mind a blank and wait - and then, as clearly as I could see real children, my characters stand before me in mind's eye... The story is enacted almost as if I had a private cinema screen there... I don't know what is going to happen... Sometimes a character makes a joke, a really funny one that makes me laugh as I type it on my paper and I think, "Well, I couldn't have thought of that myself in hundred years!", and then I think: "Well, who did think of it?"
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