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Blood just draws more blood.
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Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.
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History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.
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The witch sprang animal-like
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Strange how a story sometimes seems to end just how it started, in a circle.
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I wish, I wish I wish’ wished Wish
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Sometimes it is not until the Final Chapter that you realise what a quest has REALLY been about all along.
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The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.
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History is a ghost story.
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Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in, even against those you love, and that can be harder than you think.
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Tomorrow. There was something hopeful, even about the word.
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A promise is a promise if it is made in blood.