The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:

People, this is one of the silliest threads I've seen on FFML --

and

that's saying something.

Magic in a fanfic is whatever the writer of the story decides it

is.

It's whatever works for the story that an author's trying to

tell.

You are, of course, welcome to your own opinions, as I am to mine.

Yes,

magic is whatever the author defines it, I'm pretty sure I never

denied

that.  What I was aiming for was a structure, something to base

that

magic on.  No, that's not right, I was aiming for a magic theory

that

was believable.

I'm trying to see what makes it work in other series.  The

Belgariad,

Reluce, and DragonLance, present completely different theories.

I'm

sure you'll understand it's rather hard to write an original story

in a

world with different rules, if you're not sure which are the best

rules.

You seem to have missed the point of what Kleppe-san was attempting
to say. What he was saying is this: this thread doesn't belong on the
FFML, and bringing it here was a very, very silly thing to do.

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Alright, fine, I give up.  I'd like to request, then, that anyone who
wants to continue this thread and talk to me send it by private e-mail.

Alandra