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Rants and Stuff / Re: Happy day
« on: April 09, 2010, 06:44:33 AM »(Hopefully I'll get to meet up with you two one of these days!)
I second this hope!
"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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(Hopefully I'll get to meet up with you two one of these days!)
Leviathan is YA Steampunk. It was decent, but it suffers from being the first book in a series (i.e. not much happens). We reviewed it on Elitist Book Reviews (thanks for the easy link wilson). Just keep in mind, it isn't really SF.
The Midnighters series by Westerfeld is YA Urban Fantasy. I enjoyed it for what it was. It isn't really SF.
The method of writing isn't "logical", they'd argue. Imagination isn't logical. Ideas come from this strange place which no one can really explain.