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Dan Wells / Re: Buy Dan Bacon?
« on: April 23, 2009, 09:00:02 PM »
So Fell actually EATS his bacon-themed band-aids and bacon-scented air-freshener? Now that's disturbing.
"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
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Le petit prince is my favorite because it's charming, heavily philosophical (in the most delightful ways), highly accessible (technically a children's book), has moments of absolute beauty, practical, still has high intellectual and aesthetic value over multiple reads (I rarely reread books), and sad. All of these in one little book (I can't vouch for it being the same in English—I haven't read it in English since I was a small child, and I didn't nearly like it so much then). I've never read another book like it.
Quick random question: can women be monks?? (In BS's story; not the real world ( ).)
I doubt that everyone who is born is a reborn soul though. If this was the case the population would have to be stable.Well, at least the population of the real world + the dream world + any alternate soul-habitats (such as other creatures?) would have to be stable. Which could very well be the case. Not that I think it's a slam-dunk by any means, just that it's possible.