Michael Stanton

Right! Exactly. I think the thing is just to give their thoughts enough of an odd, twisted, different feel, that you kinda get the idea of what they look like just from being inside their minds. Also you could write a vain dragon— always preening over their beautiful scales, their wings, their tail, their claws… actually it would be pretty fun…[Read more]

I agree, Hope. There isn’t a difference that I’m aware of.

I don’t think you should probably use an assassination to start off a rebellion though, just because assassination without declared war is little more than murder.

Yes, definitely. Not a whole lot of foreshadowing with anything— a few vague, disquieting hints here and there, but otherwise you’re left on your own and the discovery is all yours when it comes.

@Rosey— yes! My siblings and I do that ALL THE TIME! When I first started writing it was just me all alone in my family, and no one else really interested in it (thinking, no doubt, ‘Oh boy, another one of Kate’s crazy projects— it’ll blow over in time’ 😀 ) but now that the novels have been getting progressively higher quality, we can talk…[Read more]

@Hope— yes, there does seem to be a trend towards good dragons. Because first there was a trend for bad dragons… and then people started trying to break the cliche… and now that is becoming cliche… so I guess you could say my dragons are bad in anticipation of the flipping of the cliche again. 😛

Okay— not really.

But seriously,…[Read more]

You know you’re a writer if you would give even a moment’s serious consideration to dressing up in full costume and going out just to see how many people looked at you funny.

You know you’re a writer when you mentally rephrase all billboards on the side of the road to sound more dramatic, be more concise, and more grammatically correct.

When…[Read more]

I’ve not read ‘After the Flood’ yet, but I’m hoping to soon! My sister only just finished it, and she had to share some of the dragon stories with me. I agree. Absolutely mindblowing.

As to writing dragons, I have both kinds. Lizards, and magical dragons. The magical dragons were once only lizardy dragons, but… um… something happened to them…[Read more]

Did Sauron’s twin brother by any chance go by the name ‘Ezra’, or perchance ‘Wilkinson’?

Yeah, Daeus, tell us. Reveal your sources now, don’t be shy…

What about a Fearie Dragon-Fly?

Hey, I like that one. Poor guy— I hate math, so I sympathize with him. The drama was good. Not overdone— just what someone who hated math would feel like.

Take it from an expert.

See that’s funny— I didn’t even think of evolution vs. creation. 😀

I’ve not done one for this week’s prompt yet. I’m working on it, and I don’t know that I’ll be able to come up with something original enough to embarrass myself by submitting…

Yikes, I think I’ll forego those as well. Or just let them sit dead in my closet. 😛

Yup— the one you won, and let me say also you did great with that. I’ll post it, if you want.

‘His eyes behind their horn-rimmed glasses roved restlessly over the sea of faces before him— skeptical faces, he realized with a shock. They did not believe him. But then, why should they? There was no reason to abandon the narrow, logical world of t…[Read more]

Can they make you run as fast as the wind? Or do they act like rocketboots? 😛

Well… *glances around uneasily, shifting dark eyes from shadow to shadow* you haven’t been taken down yet… so… here goes.

‘They struck off his chains at the entrance to the Vault, and throwing him into the darkness slammed and barred the doors behind him. Leaping up, he threw himself against them, but to no avail.
Sliding to the floor with…[Read more]

No Ezra—- shshshshsh! You’re not supposed to tell people that!

That sounds… incredibly painful. I think I’d rather die a horrible magical death than have to wield that one.

😛

@Shaina— haha! I had to laugh about what you said— telling each other what Middle-earthian race you resemble. Only a diehard Tolkien nut would do something like that.

Which I am. And have. Unfortunately I fall almost purely elf— which is too bad, because Hobbits are my favorites, then dwarves. Not that elves aren’t fascinating and all…[Read more]