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user-inactivated · 3390 days ago · link · · parent · post: Magic without Origin, Magic without Mechanism
Some things can be said in passing, leaving the readers to figure it out, without spending paragraphs describing it. The mastery is to be able to locate those things and tell about them in most laconic manner possible. A far less skilled example would be saying "her luscious green hair" instead of entitling an entire sentence to "Her hair was green and very attractive". Doing this too often will come off like a subtle infodump still, but between the two evils it's the lesser.We get lost in the myth of our world-building, and sometimes that can really get in the way of keeping the narrative going forth.