Magic Made Real

By Ploi Pirapokin

If pigs can fly, how might farmers secure their livestock at night?

During my time as a student at the Clarion Writers Workshop, Holly Black, most known for co-authoring the middle-grade fantasy series The Spiderwick Chronicles, offered us a set of questions to organize magical elements as a working system in our stories. Her questions were helpful in determining causality, point of view, and plot in fantastical fiction, but her last question about creating a magic sys...