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#WritersCoffeeClub - Day 28 How magical is your work?

Are we talking genre-wise? I write fantasy so yes, my stories have their own magic systems as a part of their worldbuilding.

Are we talking about how I write? I guess you'd have to ask anyone who reads my poetry, short stories and longer works. 🤷‍♀️

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bm 1h ago

3.5 DERAILED (OR, 'EASTER IS HARVEST TIME FOR THE UNIVERSITY')

Here comes the part where I would’ve shared some of the insights my students and I shared. Just one problem: it’s that time of year in the academic calendar where undergrads frantically reap what they have sown over the past year. Easter is harvest time for the colony organism known as ‘St. Andrews University,’ and all the knowledge it has dispensed must be returned in the form of coursework. What I’m saying is, there wasn’t much of a seminar. The undergrads have more important priorities to attend to.

With little discussion from the students to keep this post going, I’m going to have to do a bit of fudging. So, I asked Cl*ude…

…lol. lmao, even. No, I looked up #writerscoffeeclub on Bluesky, and Mastodon, to find some answers to the question asked on the 13th of April: “What do you borrow from other fiction (or nonfiction) genres?”

Schroedingers_Cat 2h ago

#WritersCoffeeClub - 28th Apr. How magical is your work?

Well, my Magic Town books - pretty magical. In a dull and uninspiring way.

My philosophical fiction work - not.

NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi 2h ago

#WritersCoffeeClub 4/28 How magical is your work?

Ask my readers. Is my writing magical?

No magic involved in writing, just imagination and hard work.

All my novels could be classified as #UrbanFantasy and/or #HistoricalFantasy. So, yes, magic is present as a force hidden from most people. An alien landscape filled with actors whose motives are not human and often contrary to human desires.

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Rich Rubin 2h ago

#WritersCoffeeClub 4/28: How magical is your work?

Not at all, seeing as I write contemporary fiction…or as I like to call it, plausibly realistic

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Alexander Corby 🇵🇷3h ago

#WritersCoffeeClub 4/28 How magical is your work?

For me, magic becomes so much more compelling when there is an air of mystery to it. There is a good bit of magic in the Taliesin series, but the magic is never completely explained. It has its limits. Taliesin isn't completely omniscient or infallible and I'd like to think that whenever we see him use his 'powers' we're unsure if it's genuine magic or some freak phenomenon of nature.

There are things that are unmistakably magical (a giant, a cauldron that brings people back to life, ect) but I'm not interested in delving into the pseudo-logic of how those things actually work.

Julie Liddell Whitehead 4h ago

#WritersCoffeeClub day 28: How magical is your work?

Not very at this point.

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Kagan MacTane (he/him)4h ago

#WritersCoffeeClub day 28: How magical is your work?

Like, how much does it involve magic as part of the setting and plot? Loads; its basic concept is that cities are magical, and they can teach people to do magic.

How much does my work cast a spell over my readers, transporting them to another world? The kind of thing that makes people say, "That book was magical!", even if it wasn't a fantasy? I don't know, and won't know until I get readers' reactions.

Howard Aiken 4h ago

#WritersCoffeeClub 4/28: How magical is your work?

Currently, not at all. I'm writing real-world historical fiction and magic has no place in it. However, there is religious belief, coincidence and misunderstsnding - which often has a similar effect.

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