Dragon Time - Fantasy Novel Stuff I've so far only used this blog to talk about my flash cartoon, Cafe Bitterness, which implies that Cafe Bitterness is all I've been working on, which is simply untrue. While devoting half my free-time to Cafe Bitterness, I've also been spending a good chunk of time on my novel, which has the working title of "A Boy and His Dragon".

The novel takes places on another world, where magic is prevelant. Humans are one of the weakest races magically, and as such have founded a city dedicated to learning, both in how to preserve what little magical ability they have and discovering technology to counter this lack. This city is called Arthera.

Enter the Child. An orphen, the child is raised by a tavern owner, and spends his free time playing in the ruins near the trading village where he grew up. One day, he discovers a medallion, about the size of a large fist, shaped like a dragon curled up. Curious, he takes the medallion home...

The medallion, as it turns out, is a dragling, a dragon's spawn. And it chooses the child as its guardian/protector. This exchange slowly gives the child more strength, and more damage resistance...the strengths of the dragon. In return, the dragon gains humanity, civility, and companionship...the strengths of the child.

Unfortunately, the adult dragon who spawned the dragling wants him dead, and the boy killed for interfering.

To save himself, and his spawn, he runs away from home, joining a Morlan Wizard, a Artheran Noblemen, and a Sword Master in a journey that takes him to the Empire's capital, and then on to Arthera itself, all the while, he is aware, that the dragon follows, waiting...

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ok, there's actually more to the novel than that, but I'm not good at writing pitches, so I'll just end it there...

I'll likely upload the map I've drawn up, as soon as it gets clean enough to be viewed, and I'll upload as brief of a sketch as I can...

The progress on the novel so far is:

The Summery is complete, but has been revised twice and will be likely revised again
The Outline for Part 1 (of 4) is complete, with 15 chapters fully summerized
The Outline for Part 2 is just started, with the first 3 chapters fully summerized, and three more sketched out.

I've done character sketches for all the characters, as well as the history of the empire, and a few pages of notes on dragons. I've also drawn a rough sketch of the entire world, and a more detailed sketch of the continent upon which the empire is based. I'm currently cleaning that up, focusing especially on the western half of the empire, in which the story takes place. When that's done, I will do an even more detailed map which will show all the necessary points for the novel, along with notes on terrain and major points mapped out.

The Dragon Novel is a much more long term project than the flash cartoon, which mostly means that I've got less to show for it despite working on it longer. Still, I'm trying to use this blog to keep all y'all informed of my creative activities.

More to Come
--Joe  ¶ 10:09 AM