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Originally Posted by whswhs
But I have to say that sounds odd, given that you started this thread by citing Uncle Figgy's Guide to Good Fantasy as an inspiration for your thinking about magic and fantasy.
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That gave me names to put to my thinking about magic. I've never adsorbed more than those categories.
This scene best describes how I feel when I try to read worldbuilding advice (I'm the fur vest guy). It's not even that I don't understand the ideas and how they fit together logically, it's that there's a mysterious gap between that and when the metaphysical director yells "ACTION!" where I'm supposed to shift from documentary view to fiction film view......it's just a weird disconnect I've never quite figured out. I've begun to have the creeping suspicion I don't think about the way worlds, fictional or otherwise, work the same way other people do.
Sorry for the mini-self-jack: I was originally thinking of forking this into its own thread, but didn't feel it warranted that.