Considered one of the greatest writers of all time, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia was also fond of replying all his fan mails. These tips have been taken from letters C.S. Lewis wrote to different people over a period of time. Happy reading

Turn off the Radio. (More modern writers may say to turn off the television or the Internet!)

Read all the good books you can..

Always write with the ear, not the eye. You should hear every sentence you write as if it was being read aloud or spoken. If it does not sound nice, try again.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

When you give up a bit of work don’t throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the rewriting of things begun and abandoned years earlier.

Don’t use a typewriter. The noise will destroy your sense of rhythm, which still needs years of training. (This would not apply to computers.)

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else. Take great pains to be clear. Remember that though you start by knowing what you mean, the reader doesn’t, and a single ill-chosen word may lead him to a total misunderstanding. In a story it is terribly easy just to forget that you have not told the reader something that he wants to know – the whole picture is so clear in your own mind that you forget that it isn’t the same in his.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t ‘implement’ promises when you can ‘keep’ them.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “more people died” don’t say “mortality rose.”

Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”: make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers “Please will you do my job for me.”

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”: otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Be sure you know the meaning (or meanings) of every word you use.