The written word is magic, the writer a magician.

The writer says something is, and it is.

Write The gronk hefted an acorn over his head, and in the reader’s mind a gronk hefts an acorn over his head.

The reader reading the sentence strains along with the gronk as it hefts, inhabits the gronk’s physical smallness (after all, the gronk must be small if it’s hefting an acorn).

Mere description creates a picture in the reader’s mind, makes the reader feel physically, allows the reader to inhabit someone else, something else, even an imaginary something else.

All that–that’s the magic of the written word.