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a show of magic
Feb. 18th, 2022 11:16 pmThe heroine in a city of magic. She knows magic, too.
I think she's going to show off her magic, which involves animals. This will provide a moment of wonder to those wizards.
And she will see theirs, which will be a moment of wonder for her.
There's the little aspect of familiarity to minimize the effect on the wielder.
I think she's going to show off her magic, which involves animals. This will provide a moment of wonder to those wizards.
And she will see theirs, which will be a moment of wonder for her.
There's the little aspect of familiarity to minimize the effect on the wielder.
metaphysics and mystery
Jan. 1st, 2018 10:54 pmWas contemplating Tolkien.
One problem with world-building like his (though you see the full extent only in the Silmarillion), is that it leaves no stray corners.
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One problem with world-building like his (though you see the full extent only in the Silmarillion), is that it leaves no stray corners.
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wonder, wonder, wonder
Dec. 11th, 2017 10:01 pmTrying to put some moments of enchantment and wonder in the story. . .
It would kinda help if the characters were not all wizards. ( Read more... )
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wonder and the working wizard
Apr. 4th, 2017 11:01 pmSo off go our young wizards -- our hero still being young even if he has three years on the rest of the scholars -- under the wary eye of a lone adult wizard -- and into a location reeking with enchantment. . . .
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sensawunda
Sep. 3rd, 2015 11:00 pmThe elusive sense of wonder. So hard to get in your fantasy. . .
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magic and sensawunda
Jul. 31st, 2014 10:56 pmSo off goes the heroine, who's a wizard, investigating the foul magic -- well, not too foul, the problem is that it upsets a dragon, and dragons are as entitled to justice as anyone -- and it's annoying, but hey, it's a job.
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what to do in a world of wonder
Jun. 5th, 2013 09:55 pmA world filled with wonders and marvels and things can be a great advantage in plotting. It gives you all sorts of excuses to have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.
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the shape of the story
May. 5th, 2013 09:57 pmPlodding along on the outline's opening and middle, and every so often the muse hops up with "What about this? Wouldn't this be neat?" And at first, sure, throw it in, as long as it feels like the same story. . . .
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Weird Worlds
Jan. 22nd, 2013 11:32 pmMy last panel. Discussing the use of really weird and wonderful worlds. Mostly about instances of them.
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worlds of whimsy and of wonder
Nov. 14th, 2012 10:28 pmThere are a number of good worlds, filled with marvels, that are classics of the fantasy genre.
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only enchantments
Oct. 20th, 2012 09:35 pmThere's no law saying that your world, replete with magic, has to actually let any character do any of it. Your hero, your villain, your man-on-the-street, may have no more magic than can be snatched on the coattails as it sweeps by. They may have no choice but to stand and stare and not benefit at all at their choice.
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sensawunda
Sep. 1st, 2012 07:05 pm"The world will never starve for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder." G. K. Chesterton
Wonder -- for all the praise bestowed on it, it can be hard to find in SF or fantasy. Then, it is a brilliantly colored but sneaky, sure-footed beastie -- or is a birdie? That would explain how swiftly it can escape nets. And stories. And books, and authors.
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bittercon
Wonder -- for all the praise bestowed on it, it can be hard to find in SF or fantasy. Then, it is a brilliantly colored but sneaky, sure-footed beastie -- or is a birdie? That would explain how swiftly it can escape nets. And stories. And books, and authors.
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bitterconMythic Time vs. What Really Happened
Aug. 1st, 2012 11:04 pmMalory and all the earlier romancers might cheerfully plop King Arthur in the High Middle Ages, and Howard Pyle might boldly describe the setting of Robin Hood as the land of fancy, but nowadays, just about any retelling of King Arthur or Robin Hood or what have you goes for the nitty-gritty realistic style (surreptiously idealized in certain aspects -- the pagans, for instance, would never recognize the religions).
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They had moored their boat one night under a bank veiled in high grasses and short pollarded trees. Sleep, after heavy sculling, had come to them early, and by a corresponding accident they awoke before it was light. To speak more strictly, they awoke before it was daylight; for a large lemon moon was only just setting in the forest of high grass above their heads, and the sky was of a vivid violet-blue, nocturnal but bright. Both men had simultaneously a reminiscence of childhood, of the elfin and adventurous time when tall weeds close over us like woods.( Read more... )
to expand -- though not to transcedence
May. 14th, 2012 10:14 pmOne of the problems of the settings - brought up by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rhinemouse-- is that such locations ought to be superlative, as ought their inhabitants. Angels and devils tend to be quite inadequate.
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rhinemouse-- is that such locations ought to be superlative, as ought their inhabitants. Angels and devils tend to be quite inadequate.( Read more... )
Fantasy and Horror in Shakespeare
Jan. 18th, 2012 11:12 pmThe Charmed Three of course -- Macbeth, The Tempest, and A Midsummer's Night Dream -- but they turned more toward the magic in the others. (Once the panelists ridiculed the notion in the program description that he was anything like the first of them.)
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