Cue for Pseud's Corner

This was originally posted in reply to a very interesting post of steepholm's regarding C S Lewis and a book by Michael Ward that connects the Narnia series to the planets.

The trouble is that people assume that writers have everything in conscious awareness all the time. We don't. I am, personally, a lot less aware than people give me credit for, both as a writer and as a magician (for want of a better word). I have vague tendencies towards something - a metaphor, an idea, an experience. I know