Several years ago, I’ve lost track of time since that was a couple of computers ago, I wrote a short story that I really loved. Unfortunately it appeared to be the start of a longer project and the place where I’d submitted it passed, and the story has sat on a hard drive ever since. But recently I’ve been thinking about it. You see, the story features dinosaurs, or namely a large lizard that’s based off bearded dragons, but I’d hoped to introduce more dinosaurs.
I’m not going to lie, as much as I love horses and unicorns, I love dinosaurs too. It’s like six-year-old me who checked out the dinosaur books at our small town library gets to enjoy the love of dinosaurs. Not in a Jurrasic Park, have to wait the whole movie for the big T-Rex scene, but rather in a these are cool creatures and I’d like to explore more about them sort of way.
Like I said, the story sat on my hard drive…
Late last year I wrote a cozy fantasy short story about an ice mage and decided to have them become an Adept and immediately be sent to the desert. Luckily their favorite barista that they were crushing on is going with them, but still, that’s going to be quite the change. And I realized that on this planet where there are large lizards, there is also a continent with a near perennial Arctic region and some hot deserts and somewhere in the middle there are going to be unicorns.
This is the joy of being an author. I get to do what I want. I’m an adult. (You can laugh. It’s okay. I’m still an adult.)
But seriously, I love being able to play with whimsy and write stories set in the worlds that live in my mind. And I’m thinking that these two different, and yet cozy and yet fantasy worlds are going to have to meet. The question is how… and how soon can I write it?
