Reading C.S. Lewis can be a master class in how to write. His prose is clear and vivid, his dialogue is convincing, he strikes a fine balance between showing and telling, and he has a gift for conveying abstract ideas in concrete language. In short, Lewis’s writing embodies the principles that writing instructors try to inculcate.
In Writing Through the Wardrobe: The Horse & His Boy, we will examine The Horse & His Boy with a writer’s eye, to see how we can make Lewis’s techniques work in our own writing.
Writing Through The Wardrobe: The Horse & His Boy includes 15-18 short recorded lectures, six 60-minute live Zoom discussions, as well as a dedicated online forum for discussion and optional writing exercises.
*Recordings of the discussions will also be available for learners who can’t attend the live discussions
Dates:
Tuesdays, January 21-Feb 25, 2025
Times:
Cost: $119
Intended Audience:
Adults, High Schoolers and Middle Schoolers
There are two “cohorts” of Writing With Puddleglum–one for adults (college-age and up), and one for high-school and middle-school students.
The course content is the same for either cohort, but the two cohorts will attend separate lecture/discussions and participate in separate forums. Adults will be interacting with adults, and students will be interacting with students.
Please register for the appropriate cohort.
All readings from
The Horse & His Boy
Jan 21: Chapters 1-2
Jan 28: Chapters 2-5
Feb 4: Chapters 6-8
Feb 11: Chapters 9-10
Feb 18: Chapters 11-12
Feb 25: Chapters 13-15
