Fire Dragon by kitsune-lunar-rose

I’m still working on yesterday’s writing prompt about the bonfire ritual, so I thought I’d share another Fire Dragon today by deviantartist kitsune-lunar-rose.  I don’t have any tattoos, but I love this design so I’ll keep it on hand just in case…  It also helps to lift my mood, since there’s a massive blizzard happening…

Here be dragons…

My post from yesterday had me thinking about maps, and a quick Google of “dragon maps” gave me some neat results worth further digging into, but also reminded me that the phrase “Here be dragons” is thought to have been used on early maps to describe unknown or uncharted territory. I’ve always thought the phrase was…

A new roadmap for my blogging adventure…

Hello again, and thanks as always for reading my blog!  As I’ve been hinting lately, now that I’ve been at this for about a month, and I’ve gotten some great ideas from Blogging 101, and from reading other blogs and seeing their different structures, it’s time to announce some changes to my format here on Writing…

The Moon Dragons by Dyan Sheldon (Author), Gary Blythe (Illustrator)

Today’s short post is about a fabulous picture book I recently found called The Moon Dragons, by Dyan Sheldon, illustrated by Gary Blythe. I love encouraging my nieces and nephews to discover fantasy and science fiction, especially dragons, and when I saw the beautiful illustrations in this book, I couldn’t resist getting it for them for Christmas.  It’s…

A Daily Post prompt… “Key Takeaways”

Today’s arwork is called “My Determined Dragon” by Carolyn LeGrand.  Find more of her wonderful work at that link. I’m determined today.  Here is today’s daily prompt from WordPress’s Daily Post… Key Takeaway Give your newer sisters and brothers-in-WordPress one piece of advice based on your experiences blogging. If you’re a new blogger, what’s one…

Writing about Finding Dragons…

So tonight’s blog post was supposed to be about something from my actual book, rather than just me talking about how I’m either writing or not, and how it’s going. However, as I composed that post, it just got more in-depth and more detailed, and I realized I didn’t want to rush it; I want…

Spellfire and dragon inspiration…

I’ve been a fan of role-playing games for more than half my life, starting with World of Darkness and Shadowrun, and soon finding Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and now Pathfinder.  It’s a fun, interactive, and cooperative way of storytelling that certainly nurtured my love of alternate worlds, where anything can happen.  I especially loved the…

Can’t talk, gotta write…

Despite getting knocked over the head by the Good Idea Fairy from yesterday’s post, I didn’t get enough done after work to have any hope of wrapping up this chapter by tonight (or at least, this weekend) unless I skip today’s post and just keep on writing.  So please enjoy this motivational poster I found, and perhaps…