Write a story about someone using magic, but the magic takes it effect on them.
What does the magic do to them as they use it?
Why are they using the magic if they know it will change them?
What can they do to stop the magic’s effects?
Tag: magic
Magic And Technology
Create a world in which magic and technology exist at the same time.
How as the existence of the two influenced each other?
How does this world look futuristic, or savage?
What kinds of rules govern technology and magic in this world?
Forbidden Magic
Write a story about someone diving into forbidden magic.
Why are they looking into forbidden magic?
How will this change them, and their life?
What do those around them do when they find out?
Mundane Magical Object
Write a story about somebody finding a magic object that looks like any other object.
What is the magic object?
What effects does it have?
What happens when others find out about the object?
Magic in the Future
Write a story that takes the magic/technology from yesterday where it is used in some way.
How is this magic/technology described?
Why would this be added to a story?
How can this tie a story together?
Extra credit: do you see how one thing can be used to begin world building?
Magic is Technology
Take the magic system from yesterday and come up with technology that could do it with little change in how the system looks.
How is this switch possible?
How can advanced enough technology look like magic?
Is there something entrancing about being able to use technology as magic?
System of Magic
Experiment with creating a system of magic.
How are spells cast in this magic system?
What are the negatives of trying to cast a spell?
How can things backfire?
Source of All Magic
Write a story of the discovery of the source of all magic.
What is the source of all magic? (How can it be twisted?)
Why does someone find the source of magic?
What kind of quest do others do to look for the source of magic?
Controlled World
Create a world in which people have a magic ability to control one thing in the world.
What kinds of things are the able to control?
How are these abilities abused, and controlled?
Are some more powerful than others?
Who ends up ruling this world?
Magic World?
Create a world based in magic, and after you have created this world apply the rule “there is no magic.”
How can you keep this world the same but not have magic?
What can you substitute magic with?
How can you keep the feel it had before by exchanging magic with something else?
Inspiration:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~Arthur C. Clarke