I know I am not a magician, that magic is just illusion. The illusion of spontaneity. It looks effortless, effortless to the audience. But there’s countless hours of practice done in private.
The magician has sweated over his act for hours and all the audience sees is the execution, the finished project, the magic
The magician does not want you to see all of their awkward stumbles and mistakes during practice. Neither do we. We want to be amazed, fooled. That’s why we watch magic.
Good ideas through writing do not just flow or arrive like magic. They are revealed to the author through practice.
We write down everything that comes to mind, gather them together, then start to shape them. Our audience doesn’t see the cutting and pasting, erasing and spell checking. But that is all necessary to create our act.
We hope that by the time we have shared the idea with our audience there will be a little bit of magic created, the magic of connection and inspiration.
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