Inheritance of Fire...
Sep. 25th, 2007 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j_cheneySo, I'm working on IOF again, paring out some scenes to get it to begin in the right place. The rough draft almost hit 12K, far too long for my purposes.
I started this series of stories, which I am really enjoying, in response to two comments on different blogs.
1) The general perception of dragons as good or evil. Western FB Dragons are bad, whereas in Asia, dragons are good.
2) The idea that once you have a family, you can't have any more adventures.
The main thread running through is that of a family that spends their life dealing with the mess left behind by Yun-qi's father, the Dragon Wizard. Kseniya is now about 5 months pregnant, and an FB dragon has shown up and demanded the baby as a payment for the debt owed to it by Yun-qi's father. Yun-qi's young sister travels with them and is integral to the story. (Jia-li is the child of Yun-qi's father and Kseniya's sister Anushka.)
I want to write a few more, with the kids being dragged along into various adventures. This story itnroduces them all to Kseniya's mother and half-siblings. I took out the scenes set in K's father's house, because that wasn't close enough to the plot. It'll just get mentioned in passing. They'll be living with Yun-qi's family in the next story (which I'll call the December story at this point).
This is high fantasy, which I've never written before. You know, good and evil, dragons, healers and seers, along with a dash of shapeshifting--which both Asian and Russian folklore seem to portray as perfectly logical (without all the western skin-splitting nastiness).
It's kinda fun not to worry too much about the science of things. ;o)
I started this series of stories, which I am really enjoying, in response to two comments on different blogs.
1) The general perception of dragons as good or evil. Western FB Dragons are bad, whereas in Asia, dragons are good.
2) The idea that once you have a family, you can't have any more adventures.
The main thread running through is that of a family that spends their life dealing with the mess left behind by Yun-qi's father, the Dragon Wizard. Kseniya is now about 5 months pregnant, and an FB dragon has shown up and demanded the baby as a payment for the debt owed to it by Yun-qi's father. Yun-qi's young sister travels with them and is integral to the story. (Jia-li is the child of Yun-qi's father and Kseniya's sister Anushka.)
I want to write a few more, with the kids being dragged along into various adventures. This story itnroduces them all to Kseniya's mother and half-siblings. I took out the scenes set in K's father's house, because that wasn't close enough to the plot. It'll just get mentioned in passing. They'll be living with Yun-qi's family in the next story (which I'll call the December story at this point).
This is high fantasy, which I've never written before. You know, good and evil, dragons, healers and seers, along with a dash of shapeshifting--which both Asian and Russian folklore seem to portray as perfectly logical (without all the western skin-splitting nastiness).
It's kinda fun not to worry too much about the science of things. ;o)
