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RE: Notes From an Amateur Writer #13 - Learning to Fly
Oh wow! You met Neil Gaiman? Or at least was in the same place as him? That's so cool! I was supposed to go to a book signing he did here a few years ago, but was unable to because of my corporate job.
Yeah, that's my approach for A Day in the Clouds as well. I tried to let go of science and logic, and try to think how someone who doesn't know something sees things. Knowing how something works really gets rid of that sense of wonderment, since it already lays out the explanation. It's like that definition of "magic is only science that has yet to be explained."
No, didn't meet the great man. Wasn't even in the same room as him, unfortunately. It was a YouTube video. Perhaps my penchant for name dropping misled you, sorry!
I liked that about your story - the sense of wonder and child-like bravado, set in the so-called real world. But as seen by someone who is also in their own world. The interaction of the two, from the protagonists perspective, jelled well.