Jim has announced a final blockbuster of a book to truly end the series, as he has found that a Big Apocalyptic Trilogy won't be enough to contain the Big Bad Final Battle. Its title:

I'm working on an urban fantasy with wizards, where the ability of magic is passed on from wizard to wizard (think JB's summer/winter knights method of passing on power), and I've been writing the story with everyone using wands, for no particular reason I can remember, but I guess it must have made sense at the time.

Now I've had time to read back, I wonder if wands are too Harry Potterish? Should I go for a different item to focus power? A staff or chains or something like that for example? Or should I skip the item altogether and just let them have fireballs in their hands or do what they did on Charmed?

Any thoughts, advice, or personal preferences?

Is the wand the method of passing on the magic? If so, how does it work? Is the wand itself an heirloom, an item with its own power, or is it just something purpose-made in a purely utilitarian way? Would making one's first wand be a step towards becoming a full wizard à la Jedi lightsaber? Would they maybe be made with a portion of the wizard's own life-force, or maybe even a bit of their body?

There's SO much that can be done with wands story-wise, and as has been pointed out, they don't even have to be the classic wooden stick.

no i want to see that

i still think she wants somthing from you i think you shoud be cearful 

Of course she does. She wants to see me go ballistic at the sight of a spider. That, for some reason, amuses her.

the dwaf unless you feed the duck readation then things get intresting, as we both know miss duck 

Then she goes all green and steroidy and becomes The Dulk.

Get to know the author or one of his/her alpha/beta readers. See if there's simpatico-ness.

OI! No thread necromancy! It's, like, one of the Laws!

Shhhh, let sleeping dwarfs lie.

I NEVER LIE.








... much. And you'll never know it when I do. *twirls moustache*

CWG, it's not mean. I've been identifying as a D&D/LotR-type dwarf for years. A D&D buddy of mine, some 15 years ago, said, "You ARE a dwarf. A modern-day dwarf. You're built like a tree stump, things bounce off of you, you're good with axes and you like beer, but you're a foot or so taller than they were in Middle Earth's time. Evolution."