I've been hearing in many forum that people are having issues creating routines, I have a deeper issue - I have been practicing card magic for around 2 months, I have several DVD's, I can do some basic moves and flourishes, enough to create a trick, I also have the Royal Road to Card Magic, yet can't forge a good trick with them, Brad Christian has said in one of his DVD's that simple hits hard, if its properly structured so I thought I might ask for some basics of creating trick, you know there are no protocols or whatever that tell how a trick should be done, I think creating them is somewhat like a painter drawing a painting, he can't do it when he is told to, only when he has inspiration, so I though maybe you could share your own favorite effects here, perhaps you could you could point out a trick from Royal Road that hits the spectators strong, share links with cool trick and explanations on youtube and vimeo or give me and others how you make tricks, and what makes an effect look impossible.