Lewis was a writer.

“Why did I become a writer? Chiefly, I think, because my clumsiness or fingers prevented me from making things in any other way.” CSL

Lewis wrote a lot.

“Writing was like a lust…scratching when you itch…comes as a result of a very strong impulse and when it does come, I for one, must get it out.” CSL

Lewis influenced and inspired other writers.

“Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.” CSL

Lewis belonged to a community of writers—The Inklings—who were interested in his work—praising and giving feedback. They encouraged, supported, and promoted each other’s work.

“What I owe to them all is incalculable.” Lewis of the Inklings.

Lewis “put the screw” to Tolkien to complete his epic.

“He was for long my only audience. Only from him did I ever get the idea that my stuff could be more than a hobby.” Tollers of Jack.

Lewis got discouraged. Tolkien was a notorious non-finisher.

“We owed each a great debt to the other.” Tolkien of Lewis

Why attend our workshop?

It’s more than a writers conference. It’s a community of writers.

Flannery O’Connor said about writing:

“There is one myth about writers that I have always felt was particularly pernicious and untruthful—the myth of the ‘lonely writer,’ the myth that writing is a lonely occupation, involving much suffering because, supposedly, the writer exists in a state of sensitivity which cuts him off, or raises him above, or casts him below the community around him . . . . Unless the writer has gone utterly out of his mind, his aim is still communication, and communication suggests talking inside community.”

Author Karen LeFere wrote:

“The myth of the solo artist working away in complete isolation is not only false but also highly destructive.”

She believes the presence of encouragers in one of the most important factors that differentiate the successful writer from the unsuccessful.

“Without resonators, writers are very likely to succumb to the ‘dampening influence of their environment.”

Diana Pavlac Glyer writes in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community:

“As they [writers] work, they influence and are influenced by the company they keep.”

Lewis valued friendship as “the greatest of worldly goods.”

“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”

“ Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a fire?” CSL

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C.S. LEWIS WRITERS WORKSHOP – October 27-29

“Creating in community”

• Join our circle of writers for instruction, networking & mutual encouragement with other writers, an agent, an editor, and a media tech master.
• Gather by the fireside at Camp Allen in the evenings for Bag End Café where we read and encourage each other.

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