Flourish

Hi everyone, and welcome back to Too Many Books to Count! I’m glad you stopped by. I hope you’re enjoying this month’s series—I know I am! I’ve gotten so many new novel ideas based off the things I’ve written this month. It’s pretty amazing, I have to say. Although now I find myself struggling to decide what I want to write next...

If you’re new here, this month we’re talking about Themes, Legends, and Myths that are extremely popular with readers in general. They’re all things we’ve seen a lot, things that in some ways could be considered overdone, but we’re taking a new spin on them and using what’s already been done to springboard a new idea, a new story, that’s never been seen before.

This week, let’s talk about one I’ve never tackled (and one I’m not sure I ever really will)

#8: Magic (or Lack Thereof)

If you’ve read anything of mine, then you know magic isn’t something I write. It’s just not. It’s one of those things I try to avoid, simply because it can give certain characters far too much power in certain situations. I don’t like when that happens.

But, it’s also something that I know a lot of readers greatly enjoy. In fact, I know a great many readers solely read stories that have magic as one of their central themes. Magic, or, of course, the lack thereof.

It’s something we all know about, something we’ve all heard about since we were knee high to a grasshopper. Magic has been whispered about all the time, in nearly every context known to mankind. Science has been known as magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Technology. The list goes on and on and on, and people just can’t get enough of it.

Which makes it one of those things that’s extremely popular for us to include in our writing.

People love the idea of magic, the notion of having abilities other than the mundane ones given to nearly every human on the planet. We’re all intrigued by the idea of magic, by thoughts of powers beyond ourselves, and we love to see what people do with those powers.

Of course, because we’re talking both about magic and the lack thereof, you have several options when it comes to writing a story in this vein.

You could write about characters who have magic but don’t realize it.

You could tell the tale of a people who are searching for magic in a world that doesn’t have it.

You could write the journey of a mage who’s lost his magic, in the act of searching it out once more.

As per usual, the possibilities are endless—and I’ve only listed some extremely obvious ones. Magic is one of those themes that we can do anything with, in almost any base genre.

Sure, it’ll probably turn into some form of fantasy by the end, but urban fantasy is a thing too, you know.

Readers will never get enough of their want of magic.

[love]

{Rani Divine}