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…
Here goes — my attempt to get back on track with the Neeka Story, moving the tale forward even though I’m still not sure exactly where we’re going. In fact, it’s been so long, I had to review where we’ve already been! You can find all of the previous chapters of this story, as well…
F is for Finding Dragons Next in the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge, join me as I indulge my own work for a moment, even though it’s not quite written yet, and talk about the dragons in my novel Finding Dragons. Since I’m focusing on the dragons in each of this month’s offerings, I’ll talk about the dragons…
C is for Conan the Barbarian Next in the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge, let’s look at dragons in the lore of Conan the Barbarian. Creating this post, after a friend suggested it for my “C” topic this year, was my first real exposure to any of the Conan the Barbarian media. But the research was fascinating, and I’m excited to…
I’ve decided to tackle the April AtoZ Challenge again, and as my theme this year, I’m going more in-depth than simply “dragons.” Specifically, I’ll be focusing on: Dragons in Our Fandoms Examples of dragons in literature, film, television, anime, and video games. From “Avatar: The Last Airbender” to the “Zelda” video game franchise, I’ll take a…
Here is an awesome piece called Plotting by American deviantartist Tikall, a commissioned design for a Flight Rising dragon that is perfectly appropriate for my writing mood this week! I’ve been making tons of progress on the plotting, planning, and pre-writing of my daily April 2017 AtoZ Challenge posts, and the more they come together, the better my overall…
I had a great time with our friends last night at another session of Pathfinder tabletop storytelling, and it reminded me of this great piece by professional artist Lauren, also known as Iguana Mouth. This dragon is sitting atop a massive Hoard of Dice — click into the post to see the full image! Between my husband and myself, I think…
All of my posts have featured either black or gold dragons on the front page recently, so I thought I’d return a splash of color to my site and feature these amazing Crystal Dragons by the inimitable and amazing Singaporean artist Sandara. This first is her Green Crystal Dragon, looking calm and sage, perched in it’s green…
You can be sane and still be an artist. – John Green It turns out that NerdCon: Stories 2016 was such an awesome convention, and I have so much that I want to tell you about — I discovered authors, books, board games, projects, just so much stuff — but writing hasn’t been my top…
Here is an interesting group of dragons in one image — a brass, a silver, and a red — called Whispers From A Council Past by the Belgian deviantartist Philippe Feremans, posting as Netarliargus. This marks the second appearance for Philippe on my blog (see one of my vacation posts from this summer called Dragon Spotting), but when…
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