StragaSevera

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Sanderson’s First Law: “An author’s ability to solve conflict with magic is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to how well the reader understands said magic.”

Perfect Lionheart once wrote, “A Muggle with a cigarette lighter could and would start any sort of fires, while a wizard with a cigarette lighting spell would light cigarettes.”

In fiction you as the author can decide that the bright ideas do work, being careful to accompany this by an appropriate amount of sweat and pain and unintended consequence so that the reader feels the character has earned it. You cannot evade the curse of building your story out of clever ideas that would be far less likely to work in real life, not just because you have no way to test the ideas to find the ones that actually work, but because in real life we’re talking about a 10:1 ratio of failures to successes.

http://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/writing for the win.