Creativity, Christianity, and Developing Your Personal Style

I love this advice from C.S. Lewis:

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that. The reader, we must remember, does not start by knowing what we mean. If our words are ambiguous, our meaning will escape him. I sometimes think that writing is like driving sheep down a road. If there is any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it.

In another writing, Lewis expands on this...

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Published on January 26, 2012 03:00
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