Anyone Can Do That
The other day I received an email from a faithful reader who noted that he had stopped reading The Soprano Sorceress because the song magic was "too easy." Over the years I've received other comments along the lines that all she had to do was open her mouth and sing.
Right. Except that under the magic system in Erde, the song had to be perfectly on pitch and in key; the words had to specify what had to be accomplished; and the accompaniment had to match. In the opening of that book, a...
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The Dunning-Kruger effect at larger. It bothers me a bit that more and more of my understanding and wisdom can be encapsulated in cartoons:http://xkcd.com/793/
Actually, for a music-based magical system, it's one of the more complicated/realistic I've encountered. (So complicated that it did not necessarily seem viable as front line combative magic and in a few other areas because the necessity of everything being in tune and completely perfect.) The only problem I had with the musical system was the extreme negativity placed on heavily percussive music. (I did not really understand the in story reasoning.)
I would like to see how many of changes that Anna made continueand how the world and people have changed Thank yoi
Hm, I wonder how many people who think it's too easy could stand up and give a speech in a moment of great danger? Let alone sing a song on pitch (not even perfectly!) and in time to the accompaniment. I guess it's so easy that it's probably why anyone who wants to can have a major recording career.
I'll say on the Corean chronicles, Legacies for example, there was just enough of a background in the nightsheep farming to give people an example of the level of difficulty involved in that kind of lifestyle. Without that frame of reference, it would be hard for someone without an agricultural background to realize just how difficult a lifestyle like that would be to live out.