Here Be Dragons

Howdy! I'm Rai, and this is my writing (read as: writing griping) blog! I'm pretty heavily set in the Fantasy genre, but sometimes I drift through Sci-Fi. Expect mentions of magic, mythology, and -of course- lots of dragons. Feel free to say hi! My characters might bite, but I don't!

[raiswanson]

New WIP who dis

I will make no excuses for my tomfoolery. My fate in life is to perpetually seed WIPs which take years to sprout and even longer to harvest. Weird analogy aside I come bearing an excerpt from a fun little thing about a famed, fatigued hero who gets sent on a fairy tale quest with a really snarky witch ✨

(full 300~ word excerpt under the cut! Next excerpt [here])

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The markings on the cave walls did not belong to a drake.

“It isn’t too big, a warrior like you will have no trouble,” they’d said.

Eodenon’s furry ass it isn’t.

I scowled and ran my hand across the smooth, polished wall. The scales that had rubbed these grooves out belonged to a fully fledged dragon, not a mere drake. Perhaps not a fully grown dragon, if the size of the tunnel was anything to go by, but a dragon all the same. Significantly more dangerous than what I’d been contracted to handle. Were the people of the village fools, or simply cheap?

That had an obvious answer. They’d intended to short me. Wait for me to deal with the beast and then play ignorant, wring their hands and purses, and risk angering me to spare a few coins.

Ought to just leave the thing to eat them all.

Hands on my hips, I stepped back and contemplated turning around. I hadn’t gone too far inside the cave. It might not have noticed my intrusion yet. The cave was still silent and cool, and I’d seen no sign of life yet. I had time to retreat and reconsider the job.

A grumble from my stomach told me to advance anyway. No, if I went back to the village to try renegotiating my fee, the beast might notice it had had a visitor and take to the air, taking my pay with it. A shorted paycheck was better than one never received.

Scrubbing my face, I sighed and resumed creeping down the tunnel. At least, even if they planned to squabble with me over payment, I could still take the additional balance out of their pantries. I knew they had that to spare. The people of Eoden always did.

[prompts-in-a-barrel]

"You're always leaving me behind."

"I didn't mean to."

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4174:

so what if your book is boring, some people like boring books

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #3991:

write because YOU want to, not because of the ghost of that author who possessed you to write his terrible unfinished manuscript

[whenthegoldrays]

do you have a wip? have you worked on your wip? will you work on your wip? when will you work on your wip?

[sleepyowlwrites]

this is so cursed it's going on my blog

[daily-prompts]

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

― Madeleine L'Engle

[isabellebissonrouthier]

Dark stories, like horror, are at their best when there is a small amount of lightness and hope to counteract (and therefore enhance) the tension. The reverse is also true

[ghirahimbo]

"Idiots," I say, referring to the characters I have spent hundreds of my real life hours contemplating.

[gr8writingtips]

i'm part of a writing community on here and the number of times writers post something along the lines of, 'what things put you off reading a book, because i want to avoid things people don't like' is making me very, very sad. you are never going to get exactly the same answer from multiple people. write what YOU want to write and if you love your book, other people will love it too

[akwardsilince]

Person A: "I suppose you're also under the belief that I can be good."

Person B: "No."

Person A: "...No? Then why are you here?"

Person B: "To watch you fail. If I can't entertain myself by fighting you, then this is the next best thing."

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4173:

if someone points out you've used a semicolon incorrectly; gaslight them

[hyunonaut]

What happens to me and probably many artists

[promptsforthestrugglingauthor]

Writing Prompt #4042

"What do you mean you've been lying about who you are this whole time?"

"I feel like lying is such a strong word. I'm just trying to manifest who I want to be."

[wavelette]

like, the most compelling ships for me always stem out of one thing: the characters have a profound, ongoing effect on each other’s senses of selves. when they are apart, the characters’ actions are still affected by each other. the way they approach the world changes because of the other. 

which is this deeply Austenian view of ideal romantic relationships as mechanisms by which we come to know ourselves better and become better versions of ourselves. good romance, for me, is always tied in with a sense of self-actualization, and the way in which a beloved partner allows a person to know themselves better.

[akwardsilince]

Person A: "I've been keeping a secret from you."

Person B: "If it's not that you've been deeply besotted with me, then keep it to yourself."

Person A: "...I've been keeping two secrets from you."

Person B: "Again, I only need to know the one."

[emryses]

listen to me. this is my final message to you. when you are at your lowest a fictional guy will come to you and when that happens you must start putting them in situations. this is the meaning of life.

[big8cola]

great trope