How would you write magicians? Would you describe their tricks? Would you reveal the tricks? Please do link any literature with magicians as characters. Thank you :)

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Some examples:

    • JKR - Harry Potter
    • TA Barron - The Lost Years of Merlin
    • P Pullman - the golden compass

    You will find that all of those wizard characters are written in a different style. Some of them are gifted, with some it’s genetic and for others everyone in the world might be a magician.

    If you meant magician by the definition of someone performing tricks, not actual spells, Arrested Development has a good magician character in Michael’s brother GOB. He’s funny as his magic tricks often fail.

    I can’t really take magicians seriously. Maybe that’s how they should be written aswell.