Human Thoughts

As a world builder, I managed to invent a universe, a wonderland of living things. While everything is different, it is not so different as to be unbelievable, or entirely alien. While my humans have changed from the old earth kind of human to something a little different. After all, the planet has adopted them, that changes everything.

However the goal was to keep humanity in my humans, to highlight the best of our species as well as the worst parts. The dragons are the same, representing the best and worst of most of us. The stories showcase what we think, feel, and say. Humans are not driven only by instinct, but we are driven by our needs, our wants, and by our desires. Some humans are aware of what pushes them in one direction or another, others are happily ignorant of the tug of war between intellect and drives.

Highlighting our species as slightly removed from our own existence allows the reader to look deeply at our motives and see ourselves differently without the guilt. Fiction has always been a tool of self discovery, or learning hard lessons, for teaching the rules. That is why my books are fairytales. They are teaching stories but not aimed at children.

In Gordon’s Pride, the first book, you meet a female who is beaten down, left to die, feeling broken, useless, and worthless. As she recovers, she finds her voice, she connects with a few others, she grows stronger. By the fifth book, that same character is helping someone else who is broken, abused, and feeling worthless and unworthy of help or love. Book to book my characters develop and overcome abuse, anxiety, tragedy, death, illness, abandonment, blindness, misuse, betrayal, and jealousy. They learn to live beyond their challenges.

As a world builder, trying to differentiate between human thoughts and dragon thoughts is hard. I have the disadvantage of being human, so there is that challenge. If you happen to be a dragon, you’ll have to tell me how I do. In any case, pick up a book and read to Ind that happy place inside.