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AlexanderKira
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You should stop after you said I think, this is a community of writers to help each other. It's called tough love, you don't get anywhere if people never question you.
I didn't say that dragons didn't have an impact, as I recall I was stating that I hate how they have made a huge impact.
You should stop after you said I think, this is a community of writers to help each other. It's called tough love, you don't get anywhere if people never question you.
So we've resorted to sarcasm have we? I find that you too are being a little too tough, I think you're being hypocritical. I'll be honest, I don't know how to respond to this sarcasm, congratulations you won a battle that you made fun of.
You guys both need to chill out.
As of yet dragons are still "cool"Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting.
So I was thinking, why not write a story where Dragons are as common as cows. They've always been there, and people expect them to always be there, then some big plot twist! It's just formulating in my head right now, whattya think?
Yes, the biggest cliche now in the world of fantasy...Dragons. Though some writers can manage to pull it off, Martin, Rothfuss, Paolini(God knows why), but many can call it the biggest cliche in fantasy. I have a question, because I have been pondering or whether or not to add them to my story.
In almost every Dragon story I have read, not many, the story takes place AFTER the Dragons. They're always extinct, except for one of course, they always wait and choose one particular person, they're things of legend. So I was thinking, why not write a story where Dragons are as common as cows. They've always been there, and people expect them to always be there, then some big plot twist! It's just formulating in my head right now, whattya think?
I think when writers have "tame" dragons, dragons that are subservient to or even partners with humans, they are moving drastically away from the historical basis of their source material, much more than any sparkling vampires do.
Dragons tend to be big, and they eat a lot. Hard to support a large dragon population.So I was thinking, why not write a story where Dragons are as common as cows. They've always been there, and people expect them to always be there, then some big plot twist! It's just formulating in my head right now, whattya think?
Aha! That's exactly what I dislike about most fantasy dragons. Characterizing them as tame creatures makes them less awesome, less fearsome.
Dragons tend to be big, and they eat a lot. Hard to support a large dragon population.
Also, they're not interesting if there are a lot of them. Ask yourself: how interesting are cows?