Announcing this year's NaNoWriMo project: "Save the Dragon"!
That's right, I'm going back to my fantasy roots.
The gist of the premise is: What if the princess captured the dragon, instead of the other way around?
But I'll let my project summary do the talking:
The dragon-keepers of Red Country and the dragon-slayers of Green Country are age-old enemies. When the Green Princess Mëiyandë manages to capture the fabled fire-breather Vartarkaan, she threatens to upset both the balance of power and the natural equilibrium.
Akiin, a dedicated but naïve young squire who feels responsible for the dragon's loss, sets out on a quest to free Vartarkaan. Things are complicated, however, when Akiin realises that the Greens are not as evil as the Reds have always said, and that Princess Mëiyandë may in fact be a puppet to a greater evil.
For this first draft, I am gendering all characters as female and changing some to male in post-edits, so that I am writing with no male-default gender bias.
The culture of the world is a hybrid of numerous Indo-European cultures, with two constructed languages.
Cover photo credit: commons.wikimedia.org ("The Two Brothers" by Elenore Abbott, 1920).
