While rational magic systems can provide a lot of benefits to your story [reasons for RM], today we will cover 7 simple reasons you might need a nebulous magic system in your story.
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The Lack of Equations Killed My Progress on the Viral Magic
They serve as guidelines for exploring the vast and murky middle-ground between boundaries. More than that, they help me connect with the magic variables and conditions in new ways so I can better understand how things work.
At least… that’s normally how things go.
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It’s Time to End Your Magic Limitation Struggles
You already know limitations are essential for a powerful magic system. We’ve talked about this in the past, but I need make sure I’ve given their importance the proper emphasis. Let me give it to you straight. Without limitations on your magic system, your story will have zero conflict, contain boring, overpowered characters, and destroy emersion. I know you’ve worked hard on your craft. You’ve got the story structure nailed
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Limitations are Essential for a Powerful Magic System
You might already know, but let’s review what limitations are and some of their many forms. From there we can discuss exactly why you need them and end the day in perfect, harmonious agreement regarding limitations and their importance.
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Life Is Tough Right Now and My Best Might Not Be Enough
There’s something important I want to talk about with you and I’ve put this off long enough. If you’re part of the mailing list, you already know some of this, but I want to lay everything bare.
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No Magic Today; I’ve Got Something Better
Something big has come to disrupt your regularly scheduled magical goodness… I am writing a workbook to help you with your magic systems.
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7 Big Reasons You Need a Rational Magic System
Let me see if I’ve got this right. You’re building an extraordinary system for your book, game, screenplay, or interactive blood-puppet show. Thanks to some previous reading, you know the importance of building your magic and story to support one another. You’ve also done the work and decided if you need a hard magic system or need a soft magic system. After everything you’ve been through, you can’t decide whether
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How I Built Powerful Viral Magic Boundary Conditions
Welcome to Part 7 of Building a Viral Magic System Today is going to be fun! Why? Because today we’re talking about one of my favorite parts of the magic building process. Today we’re building the viral magic boundary conditions! It might not sound fun or glamorous, but I love this part. Everything so far was about exploring options. Now… now we discover the shape of our system. Even a
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7 Signs You Need a Soft Magic System
If you are a storyteller and found your way here, I’ll assume you’ve at least heard the term “soft magic”. It doesn’t matter if you first heard of it here on my blog, saw it on YouTube, or got your first lesson from Brandon Sanderson himself; you want to know if you need a soft magic system for your story. Well, I live to serve. A wizard tricked me, bound
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How I Selected the Viral Magic System Variables
I usually start Stage 3 by considering the magic system variables. The thing is, we’re not going to walk through all of my answers. As tempting as it is for me to dump all of my brilliant ideas on you — Hey! My mom says they’re brilliant, so there! — that won’t help much with your system. So instead of sharing my indisputably genius ideas, I’ll focus on how I went about addressing and answering the variables.
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