The Lawless Writer

While scanning through a lot of magic posts on tumblr, I’ve seen a lot of tags misusing suffixes. In particular “-mancy” gets used as a general term for magic works, I guess because it just sounds mystical in nature. As someone deeply in love with facts and the English language, such misappropriations van be a little off putting. With one simple search, it would be immediately and obviously revealed that -mancy specifically refers to forms of divination; i.e. cartomancy, the use of cards in divination.

The obvious exception is of course, ‘necromancy’. The term actual literally means ‘conferring with the dead as a mean to divine answers’, but modern media has bastardized the word into encompassing a strange hodgepodge of dark arts involving corspes. This is wholey inaccurate, and probably is the single reason for that abuse of -mancy. However, the fact that we study eclectic wisdom not typically included in modern academia, is no excuse to abandon higher study practices and formal education. And so, I present a brief list of suffixes and how they can and are applied to magic.

-Mancy: A form of divination.

(CRYSTALLOMANCY: Divination by crystal gazing.)

-Graphy: Writing or feild of study.

(TASSEOGRAPHY: Study of tea leaves)

-Tion: Action of.

(INCANTATION: Act of chanting.)

-Ology: Study of.

(NUMEROLOGY: Study of numbers.)

-Ism: Practice or system of.

(MYSTICISM: Practising mystic arts.)

-Ry: Occupation of.

(PALMISTRY: Work of reading palms.)

-Ic: Having characteristics of.

-Scopy/Scope: Examination of.

(HOROSCOPE: Examination of a time.)

-Sis: Action, state, condition, or process of.

(TELEKINESIS: Process of long distance psychic interaction.)

-Magy: A form of magic.

The suffix -Magy would be a much more logical end to a custom word describing a practice of magic, and far better than the overused -mancy. For instance, magic with technology would become ‘technomagy’. Magic involving thoughtforns would become ‘tulpamagy’. It’s a slight change in spelling and pronunciation, but a huge shift in meaning.

“Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”

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THIS SHIT WORKS OKAY, I AM DEAD SERIOUS.

The last time I saw this on my dash, I didn’t think it would happen, so jokingly I wished I could go to a fun. concert.

AND GUESS WHAT, I WENT TO A FUCKING FUN. CONCERT.

I SAW THIS ON MY DASH THE OTHER DAY AND THOUGHT “ITS WORTH A TRY” SO I WISHED I COULD GET A 3DS

LITERALLY LIKE 4 DAYS LATER MY DAD SENT ME A PICTURE OF THE 3DS XL HE BOUGHT FOR ME WHILE I WAS AT SCHOOL

GUYS.

HE FUCKING CALLED ME 20 MINUTES LATER

20 FUCKNG. MINUTES. LATER.

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Call it as you will — fate, destiny *cue flynn rider* A horse? But craziness aside, call it as you will — lateness and it’s not until months yet; but I really feel the need to jot down the ups and downs of what’s to come for first timers in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) every year. I’ve been there, I’ve done that and now, I’m here to help you!

The whole thing is a pain in the… *minion voice* bottom. I’m not even joking. You’re pushed to write a 50,000 word novel in a span of thirty days — tops. It sounds impossible, but I’ve seen people reach the finish line three days after November 1 started. If they can do it, I’m pretty sure you can do it.

I joined NaNoWriMo when I was a freshman year in high school. Yeah, that’s pretty young, I know. The minute I found out that the entirety of it involved writing a 50K novel, I was like: OH HELL NO. I’ve never written a novel before NaNoWriMo — but I instill myself in challenges, so I took it in just for fun. 

I know what you’re thinking: Skip to it. How do hell do you even do this thing? Well, partner, you know the basics now. All you need is how to operate yourself within the website and how one can process a novel in thirty days. 

So let’s start…