Today’s wonderful dragon art is called A Dragon Meeting by American professional artist Amanda Mullins. I love the design of her horns and the lionfish-like spines down her back, and her loooooooong (quite ridiculously long, actually) tail! The artist says she was “trying to do something with more detail in the background,” and I think she succeeded beautifully. Amanda…
Write what you know about dragons! ~ Scott Westerfeld on Instagram 5/14/16 I had to share this for my Writing Thoughts this week, because it’s just such good advice, don’t you think? 🙂 I ran across this picture today of Scott Westerfeld, the author of eighteen YA and adult novels, through the Facebook page of Todd…
This is Forest Walk by professional artist Anne Stokes, who posts on deviantart as Ironshod. You can also find her work at her own website, AnneStokes.com. Her caption for this picture: This young dragon takes a walk in the enchanted forest for the first time, enjoying the beauty of late summer sunlight. Stay creative!…
Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job–one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their…
Oh my goodness. I got caught out in the rain multiple times today, and I was on my bicycle with not a lot of rain gear, so it was ridiculous, and I’m so late! Please enjoy this art called Night Fury in the Rain by German deviantartist Julia, aka Fyre-Dragon, posted just before my midnight deadline.…
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest inventions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns…
This awesome painting is called The Evertide by Todd Lockwood, and is the cover art of Todd’s first novel, The Summer Dragon: First Book of the Evertide, just released today! I preordered my copy of The Summer Dragon and received it right away in this morning’s mail. I’ve already read the exciting prologue, and can’t wait to read more in this…
This Dragon by German deviantartist Jasinai looks pretty content, perched here on top of his hoard, don’t you think? He’s got everything under control, but I get the impression that he’s also planning his next move — so I thought he was the perfect dragon for my mood today. I loved participating in the April AtoZ…
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…
In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved,…
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I found dragons for you every week while I worked on my novel Finding Dragons - On Hiatus Since 2020
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