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😀 Hello everyone, Sam here wondering how to do magic?

For any of you who write fantasy and include magic systems, I thought I’d see if you have any advice for creating original magic systems. Recently, I’ve created about five new magic systems for my fantasy WIP, and have been toying with the pros and cons of each of them, but I don’t love any of them. (I’m working on hard magic systems.)

One of my problems is that I can’t get past some of the magics I’ve already read about; my favorite magic systems are the ones based on using energy from the world the story takes place in to use magic (Inheritance Cycle, Stormlight Archive), where the magic is almost an extension of the natural forces in the world. Have any of you had problems getting past that? How did you overcome it?

Sanderson’s three laws of magic- hard magic vs. soft magic, limitations vs. powers, and deeper vs. wider, have been very useful to me, but I’m wondering what some of you have come up with for your WIPs.

I’m not necessarily looking for straight answers, just wondering what other people have done and worked on (unless that’s top secret until your book comes out) ;P

@kate @daeus-lamb @hope-ann @josiah @supermonkey42