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Let’s assume you’ve grabbed sufficient attention by pulling the reader in, you’ve laid out what your theme or argument will be, and...

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...

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...

During the Second World War, thousands of children were evacuated from their homes due to the Nazi air raids on London. Lewis, who lived...

The character of Galadriel is an instance of Tolkien’s retroactive imagination at work. Not originally envisaged in his first tales of...

With the seven books of the Chronicles , Lewis’s ambition to use literature to produce profound spiritual experience expanded into a...

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...

In the Ransom Trilogy, then, Lewis attempts to produce a particular experience of transcendence in three ways: firstly, using Ransom as a...

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...