The safety of friends with a predictable routine actually creates a space where new ideas grow from the collective experiences of the group. Though one might assume creative brilliance strikes like lightning and never hits the same place twice, it’s more like lighting kindling in a fireplace with a collection of sparks from multiple sources. Regularly scheduled meetings work best when there are predictable structures, almost as if the rhythm of routine creates a safe place to discuss daring possibilities. Each chapter addresses a particular feature of their collaboration and concludes with a suggestion for contemporary readers to “do what they did.” Below, I’ll highlight a few particularly meaningful aspects of their creative collaboration in hopes that it urges your onward in your own creative calling.ġ. Reading Bandersnatch is like reading a detailed account of a treasure hunt through hundreds of thousands of clues sprinkled across decades of material (Glyer herself described her research as “dusting for fingerprints”). The book leans heavily upon primary sources from personal correspondence amongst the group. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and others who together “dabbled in ink” and workshopped their “vague or half-formed intimations and ideas.”
We now know more of the inner-workings of the punsters such as C.S.
Thanks to Diana Glyer’s book, Bandersnatch, when it comes to the Inklings’ creative collaboration we need not leave our imaginative power to the tiny brain of a fly on a wall.
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