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Writing Excuses Episode 14: Magic Systems and their Rules

Writing Excuses

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How to Write Good Magic

The purpose of this podcast is if you want to write good magic. In the original series, whenever they had a problem that they didn't really know what to do with, Spock would have some kind of crazy new thing. Dan: "You get to that point and when that solution surfaces at the last minute, then it feels like cheating because you've just used magic that the audience doesn't understand"

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