Failing again. Failing better.
So in the past, I have written about setting up rules for the system of magic in your story. In my experience, creating rules that limit the magic in your story forces you to be more creative with your system, thereby improving your story as a whole. But how do you pick the ways to…
So I’m currently working on a fantasy novel. In my story, magic is new to my fictional world. Some people have a knack for manipulating the power and can do things with it (good or bad things). But they are still learning, experimenting. As the story progresses, magic becomes more widespread, more powerful, and the…
John Dee, whose life is summarized here on Wikipedia, and here on the Dangerous Minds blog (@DangerMindsBlog), is a fascinating person: mathematician, navigator, writer, scholar, magician, alchemist, astrologer, and consultant to royalty. It’s said that he was the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Prospero and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Please note that the Dangerous Minds link contains a…