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Reading any other book than maybe The Magician's Nephew before LWW is something that only looks feasable to you because you already know the backstory. For someone who was, like, "What the heck is Narnia??" it would be different.

As someone who adapted material for performance, I agree. But changing for a medium and changing for a culture are not the same thing. An excellent example is the animated Peter Pan produced by Disney. He said it was the way Barrie would have written his play had he possessed the capabilities of...

Maybe I've been on this side of the pond too long....

I love the books. I like the movies. I am offput by the way the movies try to appeal to "modern"...(aka less spiritual)...audiences in areas such as Aslan's resurrection. I utterly dislike giving characters "depth" by giving them weaknesses or bad habits the author did not intend. And I hated...

No, nope, absolutely not, and probably not recommended. A lot of the books rely on setups from earlier works.

"Something of a star" is more of an American thing. In the UK, acting is considered a middle class profession like a computer programmer or a doctor. And even in America most child actors grow up to become real estate salesmen or organic farmers.

I wonder how Lewis would have written it had all the ideas for all the books been with him from the first. But I must say (no, it's REQUIRED, they passed a law!!) that Lewis is more like Chopin, who wrote exquisite short pieces of music but was not talented at long form works (hence no...

I understand your frustration. I'm banking on the resurgence of interest in the Chronicles after the Netflix films come close to release. This year I have released several ambitious projects.

Agreed. That all said, the most magnificent resurrection of Aslan happened in the animated version. The music was so majestic and they didn't pull punches. When Aslan said, "It is I!!" he bounded around the meadow with the girls and flowers sprang up wherever his feet trod. I still tear up when...

Very, very true. It was very important for Britain to hold on to the colonies because a ship had to balance food and cargo. If you don't have a place on the other side of the ocean, you have to carry food for the return journey. If you DO, you can carry HALF the food and a lot more cargo.

He's a looker. The woman would be a handsome woman. Really.

JT, is there something particularly about that era that speaks to your soul? I'm drawn to the world wars and interbellum period, a real ding dong daddy from dumas! And a great deal of it is based on how quickly people changed the way they viewed the world.

I would heartily recommend that you google slang from the 18th century colonies. It would also be very useful for you to become familiar with the local news of the area your stories are written for. I'll give you an example. 1910's America. "This new sky sure gon'na turn heads. This remake with...

Edwina the Just...my oh my....

In a sense, given that all Narnians would have suffered through the fall of this one man, and all of Narnians benefitted through the sacrifice of one saviour.

I don't know where to begin addressing your question properly, but I will share this bit of wisdom. Once a pharmaceutical group tried to write a computer program that would diagnose problems by asking a series of questions. That's called "keying down". Never could they ever write the program to...

Barrie wanted Peter Pan to be a source of revenue for the orphanage/hospital. Writing the play made him more sensitive to the needs of children without families. That sort of thing often happens...writing the story The Visitor made me more aware of the trauma facing families with a member in a...

Yes, but humans are--to use a programmer's term--more object oriented than procedural. If you came to me with your hair on fire and asked me what the square root of sixteen was, I wouldn't say "four". I'd say, "HELP!" A program to this day would identify your question as the issue at hand.

Oh yes, your deeds are important. Hence judgment. But people are "unwanted pregnancies" or "invalids" or "handicapped" or "too old" and in many societies these are treated as disposable humanity. Think Scrooge saying, "If they'd rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus...

Put two and two together. The lost boys and the real life orphanage and hospital for foundlings.