Just for the sake of telling a scientifically plausible story about dragons, I have to develop a world, its geology, the evolutionary history of the dragon races, their sociology, "family" relationships, the nature of the relationship with colonizing humans and the changes that brought to human society, the development of the machine age in dragon history, the likely direction that dragon and human development and cooperation may take, and the relationship of that world with the rest of the galaxy.
Oh, and I might need a plot too.
I had one where an evil king was taking over the world and some crooked lawyer had to stop him using his lazy, mostly useless hangers-on (secretary, office janitor, etc.) as an army. One of the hangers-on (kid who emptied chamberpots) found a dragon egg (ooh), but since I based the dragon’s character off of Shannon it was pretty much useless. Still haven’t figured out how it all worked out. They were fighting the evil king’s voodoo wizard right-hand man last I saw.
(yes, the point was mainly to make fun of Eragon and similar ilk.)
Tall order there.
I can help with ideas, but stringing a plot is difficult.
Heck, so far everything I’ve written in the Undead Thread has had some inspiration from other things IN the Undead Thread.
So far I’m working in small chunks on different tales.
And, I’ve been listening to music as I write.