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In either Condensed Chaos or Prime Chaos, Phil Hine talked about joining up a creativity servitor named Eureka to the orbit of a planet to boost its power. He claims it worked rather well--until the planet went into retrograde, and he got a severe bout of writer's block.
I believe that there is a great deal of power in limitations. Or associated with them, anyway. Unusual limitations are very common in fantasy and superhero fiction (vampires limited to nighttime, secret or not-so-secret vulnerabilities to kryptonite), as though the power of the characters requires a debt to be taken somewhere else.
I thought it would be interesting to discuss what external elements you consider important to your work. Currently the only one I use is the phase of the moon. Waxing is for positive motion: enhancing what I like, creating abundance. Waning is for negative motion: disempowering what I don't like, cleaning out stale things. E.g., a spell I cast for the health of a pet alternated immune system boosting with cancer-diminishing over three months.
Do you use astrology? Weather? Time of day? Season? Television schedules? Other? |
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