Guest Commentary: The importance of magic
Here I am again with another guest commentary to fill your daily requirement of the paranormal.
The Importance of Magic
In most paranormal stories involving witches or other magical using creatures there is little consensus on how often magic is to be used. There are two schools of thought.
Use as little as possible:
This school of thought generally chastises those who would use magic for everyday tasks. Heating a cup of tea, cleaning the dishes, levitating a book off a table into your hands, are all examples of frivolous magic usage. Only the oldest and most powerful magic users in these stories are allowed these luxuries while they chastise the young and inexperienced when they would like to do the same.
Use as much as possible:
All magic users in these stories almost continuously use magic. Anything they might effect they try to change. In these stories the maximum power that a character can control seems to be significantly less. They might be good at making tea warm few could stop and arrow.
Yet in all these stories there must some sort of practice times. Seems like there is no better way than a constant flexing of the magical skills, but some authors seem to disagree. What do you think?
Happy Hunting
-Bill
The Importance of Magic
In most paranormal stories involving witches or other magical using creatures there is little consensus on how often magic is to be used. There are two schools of thought.
Use as little as possible:
This school of thought generally chastises those who would use magic for everyday tasks. Heating a cup of tea, cleaning the dishes, levitating a book off a table into your hands, are all examples of frivolous magic usage. Only the oldest and most powerful magic users in these stories are allowed these luxuries while they chastise the young and inexperienced when they would like to do the same.
Use as much as possible:
All magic users in these stories almost continuously use magic. Anything they might effect they try to change. In these stories the maximum power that a character can control seems to be significantly less. They might be good at making tea warm few could stop and arrow.
Yet in all these stories there must some sort of practice times. Seems like there is no better way than a constant flexing of the magical skills, but some authors seem to disagree. What do you think?
Happy Hunting
-Bill
posted by Laura at 8:53 PM
1 Comments:
I think that there are two ideas about magic. It can be a part of you, like a muscle where you would want to exercise it for it to grow. Or it could be something outside of you that you have the ability to use. At which point the question is, is it in unlimitless supply like energy from wind or is it like oil where it could run out. I think this is why in fairy tales and myths magic is used as much as one wants to, (or can get away with) they didn't know about conservation. But some modern writers think about magic as a type of energy and then the question is what happens if it is used up?
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