Category: Writing Magic Systems

Writing is complex all by itself. Forget about magic systems. As anyone who has ever written well… anything will tell you, there’s nothing more daunting than looking at a blank page and needing to fill it up with words. Even I stared at *this* page for at least 20 minutes before I started writing anything…

Writing Magic Systems is hard. And it absolutely should be. They take a lot of thought and effort. In looking at creating the Magic System for the Elements Octology, I had to do some serious research and come up with some hard rules that I would have to live by for eight books. The First…