What Exactly Goes on in a Writer’s Mind? by Joy | May 18, 2017 | C.S. Lewis, characters, J.R.R. Tolkien, readers, stories, writers, writing processSimply put, if you’re not one; you won’t understand! However, J.R.R. Tolkien gives a brilliant glimpse into the motivation behind a writer’s many oddities: “‘What really happens,’ he wrote, ‘is that the story-maker proves a...