Holding Your Reader's Attention With Mystery
Let’s imagine that you have successfully written an opening sentence which at the very least doesn’t push the reader away. Perhaps you’ve...
How To Avoid Losing Your Reader In The First Fifteen Seconds
You probably have about fifteen seconds to grab your reader’s attention, whether you’re writing an essay or a story. Poems have even less...
The Way to Narnia
During the Second World War, thousands of children were evacuated from their homes due to the Nazi air raids on London. Lewis, who lived...
Galadriel and Tolkien's Imagination
The character of Galadriel is an instance of Tolkien’s retroactive imagination at work. Not originally envisaged in his first tales of...
A Composite Personality
With the seven books of the Chronicles , Lewis’s ambition to use literature to produce profound spiritual experience expanded into a...
Meet Matthew and Sarah
Are you desperate to find time to write? And anxious that your writing will be good enough, even when you find time to do any? Meet...
From the Ransom Trilogy to Narnia
In the Ransom Trilogy, then, Lewis attempts to produce a particular experience of transcendence in three ways: firstly, using Ransom as a...
The 'Secret Language' of Fiction That We All Know
Some time ago I joined a number of writing groups online. My idea was to get a feel for the kinds of conversations that I thought must be...
The Removal of Irony in 'That Hideous Strength'
Towards the end of That Hideous Strength , as Lewis has Ransom meet with Merlin to outline how the heavenly reality is about to descend...