#dragon-slayer

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Starting a new read!

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Story Prompt

A famous dragon slayer is extremely upset when it turns out their child’s betrothed is actually a dragon in disguise.

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"Where Did That Dragon Go?" — I guess he didn’t pass dragon-slaying 101

Original title: "The Runestaff" by Michael Moorcock (1977)

PDF print hardcover book

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Dragon-Slayer

There had been rain that morning. It had pounded and penetrated the earth, going straight to the lush green of the trees, followed by a golden afternoon. Now the sky was clear and the moon was ligh…

A stranger walks into a teahouse. Without enough coin to pay for a meal, he offers to kill a local monster instead--The Clever One, an ancient in the mountains who terrorizes the village for profit. 

But some monsters, as it turns out, cannot be defeated with a sword. 

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Writing Update, January 27 2017

Projects: Dragon-Slayer, Nightshade, a place where I can go (to take this off my shoulders)

Words written: approx. 2,591

Yesterday was a writing flop (I tried to edit Dragon-Slayer for ten minutes and then gave up and cuddled my cat for three hours), but today really, really makes up for it. Dragon-Slayer is no longer a straight-up cliche with some fancy descriptive jewelry; it has a PLOT and CHARACTER ARCS and it didn't yesterday, so I no longer care that it's a mess. It's a better mess than I had this morning. I'm calling victory. While it was busy gaining some basic story elements, it also shifted from a simple story about a cool warrior dude who kills an evil dragon into a story about an insecure wandering sword-for-hire who gets adopted by an inkeeper, so line editing tomorrow is going to be interesting, to say the least.

I muddled around a little with Nightshade, which is shaping up well, but slowly. Every character in it is so overwhelmingly vulnerable, but they're all vulnerable in such different ways, and though I've got a few specific arcs planned, most of them are up in the air. It's a fun world to play with, but an easy one to get lost in too (I have to do a lot of scrolling around to remember what plot things are going on in the midst of all the existential angst).

a place where I can go (to take this off my shoulders) is a dystopian rescue story and a very self-indulgent excuse to try writing in second person (which is incredibly fun), so I wound down today by putting a little more time into it. Writing seems to work best for me when I've got a few projects I'm artistically invested in and obligated to finish, and a few to play with for my own amusement. Balancing them is a little tricky and definitely a learning process--but then again, so is most of life, so nothing new there.

Love y'all hope you're having a fantastic evening!!

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Doing a little short story illustrating tonight :D

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Writing Update, January 10, 2018

Projects: Tricks And Traps, Dragon-Slayer, so take those lyrics serious (and sing your life away) Words written: ~1,667 It's been a very sleepy writing day. I wrote a scene of two characters peeling potatoes and it's my favorite accomplishment of the day. Take from that what you will. Tricks And Traps is progressing pretty well--I didn't quite finish act 2, but I've been trying to go with time limits (i.e., 'one hour on this project, thirty minutes on this one') instead of having solid goals to accomplish, because it seems to work a little better. All the same, I got to introduce my two main characters to each other properly, and started a scene with the piece's main villain. She's utterly ridiculous, very evil, and I love her. Since Skies Of Scarlet needs to sit for a bit before I look at it again, I pulled the first draft of an older short story out of the story box. Dragon-Slayer is a vaguely Japanese-inspired fantasy about a guy who frees an oppressed village by killing an evil dragon. (That's it. That's the plot. Apparently I was not in a cliche-breaking mood when I wrote it). I do like it, though, and possibly it'll get more interesting during the rewrite :) so take those lyrics serious (and sing your life away) was the source of the potato-peeling scene, which I am incredibly happy with. (Space pirates preparing dinner! Doesn't get more exciting than that). Love all you awesome people, and wishing everyone a good night!! <3

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1729 depiction of St. George the Dragon-Slayer.

(source: wikimedia commons)