I guess this whole “blog post a day late” thing has become a bit of an issue, hasn’t it? With that in mind, I have decided that my future posts will be released on Thursdays rather than Wednesdays. I think I will be able to achieve a higher level of consistency with that schedule in place.

Now that I’ve taken care of that little bit of housecleaning, let’s move on to the main event with the final quote of this month’s “Writing About Writing” series.

“You can make anything by writing.”–C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis had a storied career as both a successful fiction writer and as a Christian apologist. Though Lewis spent much of his life as a militant atheist, he eventually became a devoted member of the Church of England thanks to his longtime friendship with fellow writer J. R. R. Tolkien. Throughout his career, Lewis combined his own imagination with religious influences to write about adventures on far-off planets, correspondence between senior and junior demons, and most famously, a magical realm familiar to millions of readers around the world: Narnia.

Lewis believed in the vast potential of human imagination because of the inspiration given to us by our Creator. In fact, P. L. Travers (author of the Mary Poppins series) once stated in an interview with The Paris Review that Lewis believed “there’s no such thing as creative writing…there is, in fact, only one Creator and we mix. That’s our function, to mix the elements He has given us.”

Regardless of your religious faith, surely you can embrace the exciting possibilities which the human writer possesses. As long as we’re willing to open up our minds and our hearts, we can take our readers anytime and anywhere. We can tell stories of dashing heroes and terrible villains or outrageous adventures and daring escapes. We can give the readers an exciting story that could only exist in the most incredible of circumstances, or we can tell them a tale that could unfold on Main Street, USA. There is no limit to what we can write.

Do you want to make your readers cry? Do you want to make them laugh? Do you want to make them stand up out of their chairs and cheer? Then go to it! You’re a writer, and that gives you the power to make anything!