Opinions are the lifeblood of literature. To perceive the world in an individual way, and to share that perception with the world, is where all art starts. One of the great qualities of a story is that it allows you to experience someone else’s life, world and opinions, and come away a different person for
Sometimes, to be really great at something, you have to understand its limits. How far can it be pushed before it breaks? How much can it transform before it becomes something else? Nowhere is this truer than in literature, a discipline where there is still no unanimous decision on even the most basic of questions.
Let’s talk about magic. Many of us disappear into novels because we want to be taken someplace new. For some of us, that might be Papua New Guinea in the 1920s, for others, we need something more extravagant. We need new worlds; we need magic. The trick is to create a magic system that is
It’s probably due to the nature of fairy tales that villains are often thought of as one of the key ingredients of a story. We learn from childhood that a good tale has a hero trying to resolve a situation despite the opposition of a villain. It makes for a great story, but as this
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