In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around.
Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
The future has never been something that I've been able to plan. Every time I try - I don't care if it's three or four days ahead or a week ahead - it just doesn't pan out.
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.