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lagilmanWriting Bonnie's POV, I'm discovering how very differently she approaches her core of current than Wren does, both in how she perceives it mentally and (as a follow-through) how she crafts her spells using it.
I hadn't thought about that before I started -- in any particular universe, magic is magic and spellcasting is spellcasting, right? it should follow the same basic process for everyone within a certain culture.... Nope. It's amazingly personal and tied to the way a person's brain works (are they more visual or aural? Do they tend to think in water metaphors, or air? Etc). And that's before you get into the whole messy bog of Old Magics.
Fascinating. Occasionally frustrating (what do you mean, I have to recreate an entire method of spellcasting? Why won't the way I did it for six books work for this character, too?), but fascinating.
I love my job.
I hadn't thought about that before I started -- in any particular universe, magic is magic and spellcasting is spellcasting, right? it should follow the same basic process for everyone within a certain culture.... Nope. It's amazingly personal and tied to the way a person's brain works (are they more visual or aural? Do they tend to think in water metaphors, or air? Etc). And that's before you get into the whole messy bog of Old Magics.
Fascinating. Occasionally frustrating (what do you mean, I have to recreate an entire method of spellcasting? Why won't the way I did it for six books work for this character, too?), but fascinating.
I love my job.
