How Does Magic Work?

The fine folks over at io9 have posted a little article advising all of us would-be fantasy authors to ask ourselves these 12 questions when it comes to how the magic systems work in our worlds.

http://io9.com/5936277/12-questions-to-ask-yourself-about-the-system-of-magic-in-your-fantasy-novel

I've been struggling with this in my fantasy book for a while. My magic kinda sucks. I've been trying to work on it and I just happened to see this today.

I wish they'd elaborated on it a bit more though.

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Published on August 21, 2012 03:00
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message 1: by Jamie (new)

Jamie I thought you might be interested in this blog post that discusses "The Economics of Magic" (and why the Harry Potter series sucks at it).
Enjoy!
http://jimmyakin.typepad.com/defensor...


message 2: by Rusty (new)

Rusty Jamie wrote: "I thought you might be interested in this blog post that discusses "The Economics of Magic" (and why the Harry Potter series sucks at it).
Enjoy!
http://jimmyakin.typepad.com/defensor......"


Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.


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