

From Picture To Page: How Mental Images Produce Stories
When explaining his fiction writing process, prolific author C.S. Lewis wrote that his books began with seeing pictures in his head. “At first,” he elaborated, “they were not a story, just pictures . . . a picture of a faun carrying parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my head since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'" As I went about writing my first story, my process unfolded in much