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…
I used to call this the Tuesday Discover Challenge… and since I moved the post to Wednesday, I guess I could have renamed it. But the whole point of doing this writing challenge every week is to move my new cyberpunk story forward, to get Neeka’s Story on to the page, so I thought I’d…
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…
Another day, another post in the A to Z Challenge! Today we have: X is for Xanth Dragons Work commitments over lunch meant this post is a little later than my 1:05pm CST posting time today, but that’s okay! This awesome painting is called Xanth: Luck of the Draw by American professional artist Julie Dillon. From her deviantart site: This…
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,…
Hmmm. Today’s Discover Challenge may not seem on the face of it to be geared to continuing the Neeka story from last week’s cliffhanger… but I guess we’ll see! It’s all about obstacles to creativity today. As the post says: For this week’s challenge, tell us about a time when you had to deal with an obstacle…
To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself. ~ Anne Rice Staying with the “risk” theme of the week, I thought this quote was especially fitting and good advice for everyone to remember. Just look at the stack of manuscript pages beside this Dragon Writer‘s typewriter. Wouldn’t that be a nice thing…
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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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