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A Writer's Game Of 20 Questions #1 - Making Magic

Fantasy writing without some amount of magical spectacle is not far separated from historical fiction. We like grand, impressive powers in the stories we read, and those who write stories like them no less. To write about these mystical things, we need to understand, in detail, any system of magic we concoct. Here, I've assembled a list of questions to give shape to these details and establish how magic functions in a given story or setting, and to do this as though playing a game of 20 questions, meaning to have the answer in no more than 20 questions. Bear in mind that you can, of course, create multiple systems of magic for the same settin