The Quiet

I've written a lot of comic book stories, which is always interesting when I see the pictures my collaborator artist has created out of my descriptions. If the pictures are good, the story is wonderful. If the pictures aren't good, the story is worthless.Writing novels is very different. I have to describe pictures I'm hoping all kind of people can create in their own minds while reading what I've written. I wrote this, rewrote it, and then made changes. There's always a better word for saying what you're trying to say than the first word you think of, so it's still not perfect.The beginning was easy, and the ending was easier than the beginning. It was everything in between that took work.I just wanted to tell a story about a couple of wolfdragons from another planet in the Milky Way, but some minor characters, human beings, kept interrupting until they were taking up as much of the action and a lot more of the dialogue!Sorting it all out became a real chore, but it was still more fun than cutting weeds or doing laundry, so I stuck with it.I suppose relatively few adults would want to read a story about wolfdragons because when you come right down to it, their lives are fundamentally similar to Earth dragons, and everybody knows how dragons exist on our planet.Most people belive Earth dragons are extinct, but I can verify wolfdragons definitely are, and were, even before I began writing about them.