100 Down! (Some Awesome Dragon Pics At End Of Post)

My very first 100 pages are DONE! Woot, time to celebrate! I am now finally to a part in the story where the main adventure/journey begins! This means...even more dragons! The main character is about to embark on a journey to visit each color of dragon (Black, Copper, Green, Bronze, White, Brass, Blue, Gold, and Red). This journey is going to teach him all about each color of dragon, and he will learn lessons about things he never dreamed of seeing or knowing. I'm so excited to start this next part! This first book is going to have at least one if not two of the different dragons' parts. He will definitely visit the Black Dragons in this first book, and if I feel it needs to be longer, I may do the Coppers as well. It all depends on how much I write, basically. We will see!  I am very happy and excited to have the first 100 pages under my belt. They still need to be edited, of course, and probably more than once, but at least the first draft has been completed. I hope you will keep reading my posts and stay excited with me! Soon, my book will be finished and hopefully published and then you will see how all this hard work turns out! I'll include a couple of awesome pics of Black and Copper Dragons just for fun as a sort of celebration for this mile marker. :)

Black Dragons:

Pics Found Here - http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Black_dragon

Copper Dragons:

Pics Found Here - http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Copper_dragon
                           - http://digital-art-gallery.com/picture/3859
                           - http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/Monster2_gallery/147.jpg
                           - http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/dmag_gallery/100209.jpg

25,000!

The 25,000 word milestone was finally just hit! I now have exactly 25,000 words (78 pages) written on my book! (This is pre-edited of course, but still...) I am very excited to have already written this many words, and can't wait to get more done. This book is going to be kind of a long book I think, because I'm really not very far into it. A lot of exciting things have already happened, but it is still just the beginning of the story. Even more exciting parts are coming up, and I cannot wait to get to them! Right now, I kind of need to take a little time to really think about what I want to happen next and work out a few more details. I sure hate my job normally, but today, I am a little thankful for the chance to just zone out and think about my book while I clean. I will also try to think of something special for those who actually read this blog. Keep an eye out for that!

Update!

If you hadn't noticed, I removed the Extra Special Sneak Peek post because only those who really follow my blog get to see things like that. So, if you got to see it, you got to see an exclusive sneak peek that was only there for a limited time! haha I also don't want someone to steal my work and make it their own, so I can't be TOO revealing. ;)
It has been a while since I have posted anything on here so I thought maybe it was time for an update. My book is coming along great! I haven't been working as much on it as I should be, but I have been working on it, at least. I'm at almost 22,000 words! Holy cow that's a lot of words! I am typing my story in Novel Formatting in Microsoft Word, meaning it basically looks the way it would look as a book (Side by side pages, etc.). I am on page 68 right now! So, it's going great! I actually bought a few books to help with my research when I need it. Before, I just checked them out from the library and wrote down key points, but its SOO much easier just having the book in front of me to flip through. I bought Practical Guide to Dragons and Practical Guide to Dragon Riding and I checked out Practical Guide to Dragon Magic back out of the library so I could just keep it handy. Eventually, I want to buy all of the Practical Guide books, but those were the first two I bought. I haven't even read Practical Guide to Dragon Riding yet, so I'm excited for that one to finally come in the mail. I'll probably post another update (maybe another sneak peek) when I hit 25,000 words, so keep a lookout. :)

STORY-LINE COMPLETED!!

Holy Crap! I just finished the rough hashing out of the story-line!!! Oh my goodness I can't believe I'm finally finished with that part! It took a million bazillion questions to my husband, much talking and working things out verbally, and a lot of frustrated banging of my head and pulling of my hair, but I've got it figured out! I can't believe how much work I got done today though! I feel good! I also feel like I'm going to pass out right here and now. If I don't go climb in bed now, I will wake up still in front of the computer with keyboard impressions on my forehead. So, celebration sneak peek post tomorrow? Who wants another sneak peek? :)

Still Chuggin' Along (Creature Pics Added!)

The story-line is still not yet quite finished, but I have been working hard on it and doing a lot more research (meaning asking my husband a million and one questions every day lol). I have been doing a lot of research on Tiamat and Bahamut, Queen and King of the dragons. I found a couple of websites with some good info on Tiamat, and found some more info on both of them in the Draconomicon (The Book of Dragons). So I've just been learning, learning, learning! I have to get all the knowledge I need for the ending of this story. I have also been looking around at some other creatures I may use in the story as well. There are going to be a lot of creatures in this story, that's for sure! So, I am still working on the ending, but it's coming together and soon I'll be finished! I might be able to finish this week even! We will see. :) Well, for those who are diligent readers of by blogs, I am going to put up some pictures with this post of some of the different creatures that will be in my story. I meant to put some up with the last post, but I never got around to it. So here they are! Enjoy!

Iron Golems:
(Just ignore the little zombie-looking guy, that is a Flesh Golem, and I'm probably not using any of those.)

Gargoyle:

Nightmares:

Hydras:
(Found quite a few good pics of these.)

Tarrasques:

Bahamut (King of the Good Dragons/The Platinum Dragon):

Tiamat (Queen of the Evil Dragons):

HUGE Milestone Hit! Sneak Peeks to Celebrate!

Hooray! I have finished the parts for all of the different dragon colors in my story line! Now just to finish the last part of the story and wrap it all up and then go back through to do some minor changes and adjustments to the story line and then I can actually start the WRITING! Aren't you all so excited? 'Cause I am! Such a relief to have it done! Still have a bit to do and will take me a while probably, but this is still a huge milestone! How about some sneak peeks to celebrate? ;)
Get prepared because there are going to be Iron Golems, Gargoyles, a Nightmare, a Hydra, and even...a dreaded Tarrasque in the story! And of course, a few other creatures that I still have to go back through and put in the story.
Keep checking in because there will be more posts and maybe I'll even give away some more sneak peeks! ;)

Almost There! And a Couple of Small Sneak Peeks!

I'm getting so close to finishing the different dragon colors' parts in the story-line! I've finished the Blue, and got the Gold figured out. I will write down the Gold's part as soon as I'm done with this and will be working on figuring out the Reds and that will be the last of the colors! Then it will just be finishing the ending and going back through tweaking things to make sure they click together right. Just a couple of sneak peeks: There are going to be creatures called Yuan-ti in the story, which are snake-like humanoids (some with more snake parts than others) and I'm working on incorporating more than just those into the story as well, so I might have to go back and add some other things in the story-line. And another sneak peek: The main characters in the story will be the boy who is turned into the Silver Dragon, a warrior, a mage, and a female Silver Dragon who comes along on the journey to get the help of the all the dragons.  None of the characters have names yet. I want to finish the story-line first and see how the characters develop and then they will hopefully tell me their names instead of me coming up with names for them before truly knowing them. Well, I better get to work so I can finish the plot and get going on the actual writing! I'll get another update up once I get some more work done.

YUAN-TI: