Magic
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Magic
by guest blogger, Alice Loweecey
What? Magic happens. One of my favorite magic memories is of
Doug Henning on the Mike Douglas Show in the 1970s.
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| Doug Henning |
Doug Henning was the first magician I saw perform the
Metamorphosis trick. That’s the trick where he tied his assistant in a bag and
locked her in a trunk, then he stood on the trunk and brought up a curtain on a
circular rod around the trunk and himself. Then with maybe three seconds’ delay
he counted down: “One. Two.” He whipped the curtain over his head and whipped
it back down—and his assistant stood there in his place and finished: “Three.
It’s me!”
tricks. The magician has someone at the table take a sugar packet from the
holder and write their name on it. He then performs distraction and patter
while he’s doing something that also took hundreds of hours to perfect. The
result: He takes a lemon, slices it in half, and the same sugar packet it
folded up inside the center of the lemon, with the audience member’s name on
it.
accomplished. I just want to enjoy the show.
hours of practice to perform complex magic tricks in such a way that the
payoffs appear completely seamless to the audience.
don’t want my readers thinking of the hours it took to learn to write believable
characters. Or the hours it took to write smooth dialogue. Or especially the
thousands of hours it took from the first draft of my first book to Nun Too Soon, my new mystery in stores
on January 13. I want my readers to enjoy Giulia, my private investigator, and
her sidekicks and their comic misadventures as they solve a case.
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| Image courtesy of By digitalart, at FreeDigitalPhotos.net |
Baker of brownies and tormentor of characters, Alice Loweecey recently celebrated her thirtieth year outside the convent. She grew up watching Hammer horror films and Scooby-Doo mysteries, which explains a whole lot. When she’s not creating trouble for Giulia Falcone-Driscoll, she can be found growing her own vegetables (in summer) and cooking with them (the rest of the year).
