This isn't exactly a marketplace question as it's not about a trick I'm intending to sell. Still, I'm curious about a few points of interest in originality.
There's a trick I've been working on for a while, a blend of "mind-reading" and card work. It's not a trick I've seen in any card books, but I've got a problem: I learned the backbone "move" of the trick from Royal Road. The rest, the presentation, the patter, that's my design work.
Technically, I suppose it could be called "my" trick because I'm using a Royal Road move and I'm just putting other material with it to make the trick, but it's only the one move. It doesn't really need to be more than just the one move to work as designed.
For originality sake, where do I stand? Is it common for someone to design a trick using a single sleight and then make it a trick by adding pattern and presentation? Suppose I design another trick using a commonplace sleight and I think it does have the sparkle, how do I differentiate it as my own? I didn't invent the sleight, my contribution was the presentation. Is that even a marketable element?
Or, if I were to sell the trick, would I just be selling the "secret" of which move I used and how, plus the presentation?
There's a trick I've been working on for a while, a blend of "mind-reading" and card work. It's not a trick I've seen in any card books, but I've got a problem: I learned the backbone "move" of the trick from Royal Road. The rest, the presentation, the patter, that's my design work.
Technically, I suppose it could be called "my" trick because I'm using a Royal Road move and I'm just putting other material with it to make the trick, but it's only the one move. It doesn't really need to be more than just the one move to work as designed.
For originality sake, where do I stand? Is it common for someone to design a trick using a single sleight and then make it a trick by adding pattern and presentation? Suppose I design another trick using a commonplace sleight and I think it does have the sparkle, how do I differentiate it as my own? I didn't invent the sleight, my contribution was the presentation. Is that even a marketable element?
Or, if I were to sell the trick, would I just be selling the "secret" of which move I used and how, plus the presentation?