I've been distracted from the main task of writing the stories of the DragonHawk Saga lately. Not only by family and work issues, but a side project for a summer writing group. It's called Summer Dragon, and it turned out to be an interesting mixture of fantasy and reality. I doubt if anyone other than myself will ever read any of it... It's much too personal, too much of a personal fantasy of mine...
Okay, reign in your imaginations. Nothing weird... Well, not really weird...
As I started writing, I needed some character names. Being lazy, I decided to use some characters from the Saga. From Dragon Summer, as a matter of fact. Thus the title: Summer Dragon.
In Summer Dragon, Morgan Hawkes, our Saga hero, is an orphan who has been shopped around orphanages and foster homes all over the state. He is a troubled youth, who does not get along well with others. He has all of these strange dreams all of the time, some of which turn into nightmares. When he tries to explain his dreams and nightmares, people come to think that he is just plain crazy. Eventually he is adopted by a foster family that really does not care for him, only the money being offered by the state orphanage to take him off their hands. He is enrolled in the local high school, where he makes a few friends and slowly begins to adapt. The dreams and nightmares continue, but not as bad as before. Following a suggestion from a school counselor, he decides to write them down. Thus is born the DragonHawk Saga.
Where does the story go from there? Well, it goes from our fictional town of Bay Pointe, Texas, to Los Angeles California, where Morgan Hawkes meets a girl and falls in love. It just so happened that her mother is a high powered lawyer who works with literary agents in the industry. She likes what Morgan has written... and thus, the DragonHawk Saga gets published and becomes a big hit!
But the stories are not just dreams and nightmares. Unbeknownst to Morgan, he is being trained by his Dragon Within. Because he is not just Morgan Hawkes, the orphan writer. He is Morgan Hawkes, son of Elias Tycho Hawkes and Annie Tolen Hawkes, the DragonHawk of the Great Dragon Tycho.
Told you it was weird.
Meanwhile, back in the Saga, I have completely rewritten Dragon Hunters. It was full of typographical and grammatical errors. That's what happens when you are the writing department, editorial board, and marketing agent, as is the case here at StarHawke Enterprises, home of the Cats & Dragons Blog.
So Dragon Hunters has been reposted and I am back working on Dragon Heart. Got to get these two Drakkon married so they can start raising their family! Meanwhile, the Dragon Hunters and the Rahhol are still out there, as the Third DragonHawk War looms large.
What happens to Morgan in Summer Dragon?
I don't know. What do you think happens?
Wait, you say. What's his girlfriend's name? What about her father?
Her name is Sarah Alexandra Conner. Alex, for short. And her father? He's a high ranking executive in the Disney organization. You didn't think I'd go all the way to California without going to Disneyland did you?
Thanks for reading,
Dave
