Sharon Buchbinder's Blog - Posts Tagged "magic"
Diane Wylie, The Mayans and Moonlight and Illusions
The Mayan civilization captured the attention of some folks recently with the “end-of-the-world” predictions caused by the ancient Mayan calendar. You can believe the doomsday criers or not, but the fact that the Maya were pretty smart cookies is something that most archaeologists do agree upon. The Maya were interested in mathematics and astronomy and various other disciplines. They closely observed the earth’s seasonal cycles and the phases of the moon, recorded eclipses, and even tracked the plant Venus as it moved across the sky.
Yes, the Maya were pretty smart, but what if they knew even more than we can reliably document? What if they also had the power to control events around them? Now, I am not saying they did have that kind of power, but as an author of fictional works, one of the things I ask myself, especially when writing a paranormal, is the question, “What if?”
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Yes, the Maya were pretty smart, but what if they knew even more than we can reliably document? What if they also had the power to control events around them? Now, I am not saying they did have that kind of power, but as an author of fictional works, one of the things I ask myself, especially when writing a paranormal, is the question, “What if?”
To read more, go to http://bit.ly/xghqAp
Barbara Monajem is Stalked by Magic
I can’t get away from magic in one form or another. I thought that when I branched out from paranormal into historical romance, there wouldn’t be any magic in my books. I already knew why I was writing contemporary paranormals – I wanted distance from real life. I thought Regency historicals would work the same way, because 200 years in the past is plenty of distance from today.
Apparently not. Magic is sneaky. In my very first Regency (unpublished and languishing in a virtual drawer hoping to be revised), an Irish tinker walked into the story. He seemed like a regular guy, but it turned out he had some fairy blood. Not that he did anything unusual in that story, but I could just tell, and in the sequel (also languishing in the drawer) his magic crept into the book. That very same story ended with the whisper of a ghost.
To read more, go to http://bit.ly/TYmqAH
Apparently not. Magic is sneaky. In my very first Regency (unpublished and languishing in a virtual drawer hoping to be revised), an Irish tinker walked into the story. He seemed like a regular guy, but it turned out he had some fairy blood. Not that he did anything unusual in that story, but I could just tell, and in the sequel (also languishing in the drawer) his magic crept into the book. That very same story ended with the whisper of a ghost.
To read more, go to http://bit.ly/TYmqAH
