I... don't know.
I've been watching Doctor Who. Three seasons in five days, and I actually slept 8-9 hours each night. So that's a pretty good accomplishment I think. Bloody brilliant show btw, at least the first seasons. I've heard a lot of bad about the 11th Doctor seasons, which is a shame, because it is a great show with a great history and Steven Moffat is a sexist assbutt who doesn't deserve any part of it, but that's not what I'm here to talk about.
What am I here to talk about? I don't know.
I think I'll write you a story.
~x~
Far to the West, where the Northern Mountains meet the Inkling Forest, a small village rests in a river valley, half a day's trip from the Great Sea. It is a simple place, this village, with simple people with simple needs, and even if there occasionally is a traveler or two, they are always just passing through on their way to the City by the Sea, Tenmér, and don't pose much of a change. The village holds no great natural resources, no political value and has an inconvenient location, being basically inaccessible unless traveling along the river Renn, making it practically the safest place on earth quite simply because no one gives two shits about it.
That is my village, that is my home. That is Lendá.
I too am a pretty simple person. The name in Pin, 17, and I am the youngest of five. Dad's a hunter, mum's a seamstress, and I can do a bit of both. Being the youngest, I don't have much pressure to follow in my parents' footsteps like my oldest brother and sister do, so I am pretty free to do what I want. Problem is, I don't quite know what I want. Mum sometimes pressures me to get married and settle down, but I don't wanna do that. Not yet, there's still too much to see in the world. So many adventures to go out and find.
But who would've thought that the adventures would come looking for me?
~x~
I don't know. It's a fantasy story. There will be dragons. And dragon riding. And something else, I haven't really gotten that far. Ideas are much appreciated?
Pie out.
Dragons are cool. That sounds like a beginning that could become a really good story.
ReplyDeleteOh, coolest thing! I got a brilliant idea for another book. Well, a setting for a book. I have no idea about a plot or characters, but I'm hoping they'll come to me if I just build the world and the society for long enough. Also, I have this other novel I'm working on right now, so that can wait. But I'll tell you about it more later.
You want dragons.... Ummmm...
She wants something more with her life than just living in an insignificant village, and runs away with a friend, who then dumps her in the middle of nowhere, where she finds a group of merchants and joins them. And they tumble upon a dragon's nest with an egg, and she takes it without telling anyone and keeps it close. Until she meets a which at a fair, and she tells her it's a dragon's egg. And then the egg hatches. So she goes off looking for dragons, since they have to exist though no one's seen them in a hundred years. And then she finds a secret valley in the middle of a mountain range that is a home to all the dragons.
Yeah. I just made up a story in two minutes.
I didn't say it's a good one.
But maybe you'll get some decent ideas out of it.
~matu