So, I'm just starting to write a story with a huge Dragon as the protagonist. He, or she will have previously been a 14 year old boy, you know the drill. I am have been reading Anne McCaffery, so my Dragon will not hatch or be fighting strings. It bothers me that one of the story devices I plan to use is that my Dragon will draw his power from another dimension, but I can not remember who originated that concept on this site, so I can ask permission to use it.
There will be no religion in the story, cultural or otherwise. I will use conventional sexual role models.
I am trying to better understand this venue so I can write more popular stories perhaps. This in preparation to entering into writing for the general public.
My efforts here may be entirely futile, though I do write very successfully at a site where we debate various Theological and Anthropological issues. Maybe my trying to write TG stories is a bit out of my league, a bit like trying to teach a square dancer the boogie? Though the relative success of a couple of my stories confuses me.
Any advice?
Gwen
Comments
Stop trying to write FOR a particular audience.
That's about the best advice I can give. Unless your only goal from what you write is financial or social gains, then don't limit yourself based on the notion that a particular audience's tastes are what should guide your work.
Write the stories YOU want to write, or want to read. The right audience will find your work. Will it be the most popular thing in the entire world? Probably not. That means nothing in terms of the work's actual value, artistically, intrinsically, or emotionally.
Your dragon story sounds interesting! I'm not sure on the trans-dimensional power leakage stuff, but the overall idea is intriguing. Have you ever read a book called "Flight of Dragons?" Definitely check it out!
Melanie E.
Write your story, your way.
It's the best advice I've ever received.
Even if you use something similar to something you've read in another story, make it yours. I know it will be good.
~And so it goes...
Re: Dragons
Gwen dear,
the others who have replied definitely have the right idea. If you want to write about dragons, that's awesome, write about dragons. I'm beginning to learn that the most marketable ideas aren't those designed to be marketable, but those stories that an author wants to develop and tell to an audience.
That being said a lot of people have written about some variety of dragons, myself included and the best advice I can give you is to add your own personal flair, your own little quirks to them. Make them your dragons.
*big hugs*
Amethyst
Don't take me too seriously. I'm just kitten around. :3
Write the story
From comments I've read over the years - and personal experience - sometimes a story won't "write" the way you intended it to go. Sometimes it will take on a life of its own. Let it.
In a sense, I'm just rephrasing what others have written, but in the case of your story, just
write the story that's waiting to come out.
with warm regard,
Deni
My Dragon
Yes, my story has already become disobedient and willful. :)
Gwen
FOR THE CHARACTERS
To have the characters live for your audience they must first live for you. And yes sometimes that means that they argue with you over things they would or would not do.
Also the story its self does take on a life of its own and that is very important that it does so. So many of the best turns in my story are totally random but add so much to the story I had to include them. The next chapter of my story is taking a bit long because there is a need to shift gears, and one of the bit characters gave me the Idea how.
I am under the impression that our ability to tell good stories come from a very Zen portion of our being, that is what I experience when I am in the zone and real creativity is flowing out of my pen onto the page or into the computer.
Write what your heart wants to be written, a lot of the time my not so good stuff ends up in my back story section never to see an audience but they build a foundation for the story to grow. You are a great writer and I am looking forward to seeing your new work.
Huggles
Michele
PS
I love dragons but they are hard to feed.
With those with open eyes the world reads like a book