Heir To Magic

The website is starting to look like what I wanted it to be looking like.  I’ll be adding more things for the novel soon, right now I have a page started for the Tower of London and one for dragons.  I have a lot more planned for being added to the site as I get time to work on it, including information on the laws of my novel’s world, customs, clothing, recipes and other assorted things that just make the world of my novel seem more real.

It is closing in on one in the morning right now, so I think I better get some sleep and work more on this tomorrow.

I have found my Heir To Magic Atlas, and the sketchbook I have been making for the world, so now I can scan in the pages and start creating the website that I had been planning when I started out with it.  That has me really excited and I can’t wait to see if my vision actually takes the shape that I have been holding in mind for it or not.  Please be sure you come back and see what I have created later on when I have had a chance to get this thing up and going.

I was tied up with Thanksgiving and working on another site and… ::shaking head sadly::: It just seemed like every time I would start to get a little caught up my day would suddenly be gone and I would be sitting here asleep at the computer. I very obviously gave up on posting here every day back around the 19th, but I have not given up on Heir to Magic — I am FAR too into that novel to ever give up on it. (We’re talking years here people, YEARS).

So anyway, I am still working at plugging away on Heir to Magic, in fact, some of what kept me from updating here was some work for that. You see, I was researching dragons, since dragons are going to play a role in the novel soon. Now, them of you that know me can put your dropped jaws back in place, I know that I should know all there is to know about dragons but there are still a few questions that even I have about the critters. Such as… their skeletal structure.

Yes, that’s right, I need to know what – realistically – a dragon’s skull would possibly have looked like. So I went looking. Do you know that there is very little information online about the skeletal structure of dragons?… you didn’t? Oh, well… there’s not much online about that, trust me on that one. So, I decided that since the only little bit I was finding was a basic body / muscular structure / skeleton structure that someone had made back in 1997, I should just go ahead and draw up my own skeletal structure for dragons. And so I did.

Yup, that’s right, I made my own dragon skeleton — see…

That is based on the skeletal structure of a dinosaur I found at the Berkeley website, paired with the wings from an Archeoptryx and given a breastbone and wishbone of my own design. His neck was made longer, to account for the long neck of a dragon, and the head is the skull of the Dracorex hogwartsia (yes hogwartsia – as in J.K. Rowling’s Hogwarts. Yes, Dracorex hogwartsia is a real dinosaur, I swear.)

Anyway, there be my first effort at a dragon skeleton, I think the wings are far too small as is the overall length of the body, but I can improve on that in later works to decide just how the dragons should look.  For now, back to getting work done on not only my websites, but on my novels as well.