In fantasy, magic makes your world go round. It is not an afterthought. It is an important literary device that shapes your writing.
Magic, and how it works, will dictate how your characters act. It does this the same way gravity makes the earth spin.
If you think this kind of thing is stupid, you are not going to be able to write about it. This is a deadly serious topic. It has made authors’ careers and it has relegated others to obscurity.
Back in the USSR
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I’ve just finished reading two books on Russia, well, actually the old
USSR, set 30 years apart — one in the 1960s, and the other in the 1990s
when the USS...
4 years ago
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