Hi all,
The first dragon book that I wrote was not Blood and Water. I actually wrote about 30K words for a different dragon book when I was fifteen.
This book followed Russet, a dragon hatchling that escaped a petting zoo. She was born into it and didn't know anything other than it, but she always dreamed of running in the forest. One day, when she was a few months old and able to use her wings, she escapes.
At first she loved exploring the forest and all the animals there, until hunger set in. The forest was scarier at night, with predators such as foxes and badgers which attacked her for getting too close to their dens.
Eventually she went back to the zoo to start stealing food and water, which went on for months. Then she met a baby dragon called Lily. Lily was only a few days old, but kept calling out to Russet whenever she saw her. When Lily was old enough to talk, she asked Russet to help her escape. She said that she was special, and was destined to find six unhatchable dragon eggs to learn elemental powers. These elements were fire, water, air, earth, electricity and light.
Russet helps Lily escape and another baby dragon called Xerxes uses the opportunity to escape with them. From there, the three of them travel across the continent looking for the eggs to help Lily achieve her destiny. But the humans know what Lily is, and they desperately want her back. They follow the group on their quest, hoping to stop Lily before she reaches the final egg.
As I'm sure you've realised, some of the elements of this story did carry over to Elemental Dragons! Russet, although not in the main story, has her story told in the Short Story Collection. This time instead of escaping the petting zoo, she is forced into it when her companion dies.
Fire, water, earth, air, electricity and light all made it into the Elemental Dragons series as well. Air was renamed Wind and Dark and Ice were added as elements as well.
This story had the dragons as the main characters, rather than humans. They couldn't understand human speech but knew that they wanted to capture the dragons again. Along the way they meet more dragon characters, all of different types who help and hinder them on their quest.
I eventually stopped writing this book because I came up with the idea for Element Dragons instead. I borrowed a few ideas from the book and decided to write a brand new story. As much as I liked writing the initial story, I fell in love writing Blood and Water and knew that would be my first finished book.
That's it for this week, I hope you enjoyed reading! See you next week.
