cocoagiant
cocoagiant t1_je7gzbs wrote
Reply to comment by NextEstablishment856 in [WP] You are a budget mage. While most of your colleagues use costly ingredients, rituals that take weeks to prepare and use a new spell for every problem, you only know a few spells, use common household ingredients and prepare rituals within minutes. They unjustly deride your work as shoddy. by Kitty_Fuchs
The writing isn't great but the concept is a good one.
cocoagiant t1_je7g1wh wrote
Reply to comment by NextEstablishment856 in [WP] You are a budget mage. While most of your colleagues use costly ingredients, rituals that take weeks to prepare and use a new spell for every problem, you only know a few spells, use common household ingredients and prepare rituals within minutes. They unjustly deride your work as shoddy. by Kitty_Fuchs
This has a lot of potential.
I could see it being kind of like the Fred, the Vampire Accountant Series by Drew Hayes.
It might be niche but I really like stories which go into the logistical issues of magic.
cocoagiant t1_jearv97 wrote
Reply to comment by MLockeTM in [WP] You are a budget mage. While most of your colleagues use costly ingredients, rituals that take weeks to prepare and use a new spell for every problem, you only know a few spells, use common household ingredients and prepare rituals within minutes. They unjustly deride your work as shoddy. by Kitty_Fuchs
I would consider Dresden (at least books 4 onward) perfectly decent writing. Butcher is also a very good worldbuilder.
Hayes' prose is fine but his world building is not super consistent. His characters also aren't super well fleshed out.
It doesn't take away from enjoyment if you aren't an overthinker like me.