Magical Thinking
Suddenly, my world makes no sense.
I mean, it's not that I ever thought my world made sense. Life is too much about loss and pain and crazy joy to ever think it's ordinary. I love life's wild ride.
But lately, I've been in love with magical realism.
When I wrote Freudian Slip, God is a woman who forgets that sometimes people pray to the Virgin Mary and thus sometimes football bets are thrown amiss by the Hail Mary pass. Angels can inhabit human bodies briefly. Demons wear Aramis aftershave.
Rather than writing, I found myself dancing through the novel. It had a world and rules of my own, but they were magical rules.
So it is I am working on a proposal filled with magical realism in which the main character invents a fictional world and then invites someone to live in it. As in leave the real world and go live in this magical one. And the possibilities are freeing.
So, to that end, I would like a genie and three wishes.
Anyone else playing with magic lately? (And I have many favorite magical writers, but Gabriel Garcia Marquez in my favorite!!!)
I mean, it's not that I ever thought my world made sense. Life is too much about loss and pain and crazy joy to ever think it's ordinary. I love life's wild ride.
But lately, I've been in love with magical realism.
When I wrote Freudian Slip, God is a woman who forgets that sometimes people pray to the Virgin Mary and thus sometimes football bets are thrown amiss by the Hail Mary pass. Angels can inhabit human bodies briefly. Demons wear Aramis aftershave.
Rather than writing, I found myself dancing through the novel. It had a world and rules of my own, but they were magical rules.
So it is I am working on a proposal filled with magical realism in which the main character invents a fictional world and then invites someone to live in it. As in leave the real world and go live in this magical one. And the possibilities are freeing.
So, to that end, I would like a genie and three wishes.
Anyone else playing with magic lately? (And I have many favorite magical writers, but Gabriel Garcia Marquez in my favorite!!!)
Labels: magical realism
posted by Erica Orloff at 8:56 AM
14 Comments:
I haven't, but I love the stuff. I love fiction that's really fiction, LOL, and not something so realistic it has no... magic. I crave fiction that needs to suspend my disbelief.
Does lycanthropy count?
I have psychics in my next book. I want psychic powers!
Love the idea of a fictional world. After all, that's what we do as writers. Make up a fictional world and invite people to live in it for a few hours. :)
One of my favorite short stories is "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
I love playing with magic in fiction.
Yep, I always play with magic. With the exception of the erotica, I'm writing vampires, demons, were-creatures, sorcerers, you name it.
Love your new idea of the fictional world!
I'm immersed in magic these days working on my new series EVERMORE, BLUE MOON, (and more to come!) I've got psychics and dimensions between the dimensions, and it's been so much fun to write- I'm reluctant to leave!
FF here. Laura Anne Gilman is writing a series where winemaking is associated with magic and different vinters have different types of magic. I'm not describing it very well. She describes it much better.
My adult novels, never.
My kids' novels, always, for what that's worth.
Go figure.
Out of the the seven books, only two don't have magical realism. I go with a light touch, but I really want to just go all out. It's why I want to write YA and do a fantasy.
Erica, yep I love the magic. Those elements are getting stronger in my work, and I absolutely love it. The world we can't see is much more interesting I believe.
I love the magical world. Most of my stories lean to this side. I like it because I can make up my own life rules.
:)
And change them at will. It's my God complex.
I'm just editing a psychic powers story which should be released soon. It is very freeing to write of such things and I think I did some good work in that book.
Creating a full on magical world could be quite exhausting or liberating. I don't which since I have never tried it.
Michele:
Probably my fave short story ever.
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FF:
That sounds totally awesome!!!
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