Alex, in workshop we were talking about how to depict the fantastic by bridging from the known, everyday world.
I gave the Craig Clevenger example about Vicodin. But do you recall the first time you saw shaving cream billow out of a spray can? The blue/white foamy miracle that smelled so good? That was magic. That’s the sort of thing you can revisit to remind the reader how magic used to happen.
Alex who?
I guess my default book example for the topic of the fantastic and the known is Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’. Narrative about how the average day of an average man can have all the wonder and virtue of a Greek epic.
And speaking of shaving foam, the book also starts with someone shaving.