Everything I love is problematic, … no media is perfect. … So what can we do? Love the things we love, but acknowledge room for improvement. — Delilah S. Dawson, Everything I Love is Problematic In November 2015, I read an amazing article by Delilah S. Dawson published on one of my favorite sites, The Mary Sue,…
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. — Jodi Picoult It’s almost the end of May already! And I still haven’t gotten very far with this year’s resolution to work more on my novel… But I do have a plan, and…
You will never ‘find‘ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. — Charles Bruxton, Notes of Thought I can’t believe I’ve been writing this blog for over two years now, and I really can’t believe that when I started, I was posting almost every single day! My posts were super short in the…
We had a giant snowstorm hit us on Monday, so this week I thought I’d share some wintry-white dragons and other creatures painted by one of the most well known fantasy artists on the internet, Singaporean professional artist sandara. Let’s start with nettle, which shows a scene inspired by Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series (which I featured in…
This is Clandestine by Singaporean professional artist Nicola Hwang, posting as Fairygodflea. You have to click in to see the entire image and what the dragon is hiding from! This is the first of series and the artist captions it, “Ah yes, the perils of dating someone not of your class… Or species.” This piece won…
Hello my friends! I have wonderful news, and I thought this dragon called Sunstretch by Australian deviantartist Jenna Vincent, posting as cryslara, captured my mood perfectly! In my mind, this dragon is looking out from his dark cave into the sunrise of a new day, and that’s just how I feel! To be honest, another…
To overcompensate for missing three days of dragons this week, I found a wonderful professional artist to share with you today named Katie Croonenberghs, posting on deviantart as Kamakru. Katie is actually drawing a dragon each day for an event called Smaugust. This first one is her Day 4 picture. I think it’s really amazing, especially…
It’s the last Friday of the month again, so here is a finished piece from my personal archives. I’ll be posting my AtoZ: Y dragon later this afternoon, don’t worry! A few years ago, I was given a writing assignment in class: I needed to write an emotional scene from my story, Finding Dragons, in blank…
It’s time for a Writing Prompt post according to my posting schedule, which I’ve been trying to follow… for the most part, anyway. I’ve been busy, and writing hasn’t been going well, and I know I’m procrastinating — but I haven’t missed a daily dragon post yet, so I call that a win at least. To…
It was a busy day today, so I’m only carving out some writing time now at 11pm, but I hope you’ll forgive me if the writing turns out as well as I hope it will! This isn’t exactly a prompt per say, but the idea hit me like a bolt of lightning after I read…
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