Aminah Howell

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  • Introduction of Me!

    Hi, are you a writer yourself? Because I also love to write! I’ve decided to write a blog because I’ve wanted to try something new and see what type of a writer I am, and I also want to see how I’m still improving each day and each time I write. I will be writing about my fiction writing and stories and what I have been working on both recently and for many years. I’d like to invite you to check out my writings and share yours with me if you are a writer, too! (And EVERYONE is welcome to share anything with me). I hope you all enjoyed this little introduction of me, and I hope you all enjoy what I have to tell and the type of storyteller I am trying to become. Here are some other links you can check out on my writing website, and you can always follow me on social media and my Writing Facebook Page anytime – see the links below. I will try to blog weekly on Mondays for now. Thank you y’all so much and thank you for taking the time to read this first blog post of mine!

    1. Aspiring Author, Writer, Storyteller, and Creator
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    3. Instagram
    4. Threads
    5. TikTok

  • How C.S. Lewis Has Influenced My Writing

    C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors, and in today’s blog post, I am going to delve into his life as well as talk about how he has and continues to influence my writing.

    According to C.S. Lewis’s website, C.S. Lewis’s full name is Clive Staples Lewis and he lived from 1898-1963. He was born in Belfast, Ireland. The site says, “He was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to Chair Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement.”

    According to C.S. Lewis’s website, he has written “…more than thirty books, and he wanted to reach a vast audience.” Other than The Chronicles of Narnia, he also wrote The Dark Tower and Other Stories, and The Great Divorce. Also, he wrote Out of Silent Planet, the first book of a Space Trilogy. I have never read those books, but they do sound interesting.

    When I first discovered C.S. Lewis’s great work, The Chronicles of Narnia, I thought to myself it was going to be interesting in a good way. When I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, my imagination went wild, also in a good way. I wasn’t wrong. The books were interesting! C.S. Lewis has influenced my writing ever since I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. His writing inspired me to be an author myself, and I’ve been dreaming up and creating my own stories ever since.

    When I first read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, it was pretty cool how he told the story in a way that left some room for my imagination to paint the picture of his world in my head. Ever since then, I have loved and revisited this story. Whenever I go back and read this particular story, even parts of this story, it truly blows my mind (in a good way). As I have been developing my own stories and book series for about 7-8 1/2 years now, I truly believe I have learned a lot from his writing style and story-telling ability and strive to keep learning and writing, no matter what.

    When I revisit the inspiration that C.S. Lewis got for The Chronicles of Narnia, it truly amazes me. I hope as I continue to write and keep developing my stories, I can think outside of the box and use my life and life in general for inspiration.

    I hope you learned some new information about C.S. Lewis as an author and a person. I hope when I deliver my stories, you might understand that it’s okay to be yourself because that’s what C.S. Lewis has helped me understand through his writing.

  • Book Review

    As a writer and a fan, one of my inspirations is C.S. Lewis. I have felt inspired by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe because of the story itself. When reading this book, I felt sadness, anger, happiness, and fear, just to name a few emotions that the story brought out. For example, when Lucy cries at some point in the book, I wanted to cry along with her. And that is why, to this very day, truly enjoy what C.S. Lewis has written. His ability to evoke emotion is always why he has inspired me to be a writer. One of the main reasons why C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite fantasy authors is because of the way he tells the story and how he can work your imagination and leave pictures in your mind, and that’s what I did by reading this particular story. It is a story about 4 children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and how they go through a magical wardrobe and discover the world of Narnia for the first time.

    When I read this book, I loved it! I love this particular story because of the way C.S. Lewis wrote it and those little details that you can go back to rediscover. For example, when Lucy discovers the magical wardrobe for the first time and discovers the world of Narnia, it is one of my favorite moments in the book. This is one of my favorite moments because of the sense of wonder and how I can imagine this in my mind and paint a picture in my mind. This story is so dear and close to my heart. Another reason it’s so inspiring to me as a writer and a fan is because of how C.S. Lewis has created this world and how he inspired me to write my very own story one day and be a writer and an author myself. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is by far one of my favorite books out of his Fantasy book series. I admire how C.S. Lewis became an author and how he wrote and kept writing even before he started writing The Chronicles of Narnia.

    His writing is so inspiring to me because, again, how he can leave some room for your imagination in your mind and paint a picture. For example, towards the beginning of the book, when the Pevensie children meet Mrs. and Mr. Beaver for the first time and get some sense of what this whole magical world of Narnia is about, you paint a picture in your mind and also feel those emotions that C.S. Lewis wrote.

    The emotions that I have felt while reading the story are the emotions that I want to feel. For example, when Lucy tells her siblings, Peter, Susan, and Edmund about the magical wardrobe and what she has seen, they didn’t believe her. When that happened, I was feeling a bit sad and upset. Another example is towards the beginning of the book when Edmund meets the White Witch for the first time, the emotions that I felt were fear and nervousness that something bad could happen to Edmund. When my heart pounded, and kind of pounded hard, I was feeling a bit scared and worried about what was going to happen. It was a valuable experience because of how C.S. Lewis awoke my imagination and how there is still room to paint a picture in my mind. Also, I love the written words he wrote in this story because of how he evoked strong emotions and brought the characters to life. Those moments and his written words and story are never be forgotten. The emotions that C.S. Lewis left me feeling are so good that I want to try to write stories of my own and have an impact, the impact that I want all of you to experience when I write my stories, because I truly believe that C.S. Lewis left me inspired, and I want to do the same for others. I truly loved what C.S. Lewis has done to this story, and I truly believe that C.S. Lewis did an outstanding job of writing this book, creating this story, and creating the whole book series.