Patrick Matthews
Wow. I didn't realize I hadn't been on Goodreads in so long! Sorry for the delay in answering. I'm always working on more than one project at a time, which makes answering this question tough.
I can talk about Dragon Run, though. That book started out with a simple question: "wouldn't it be cool if dragons ran the world?"
Almost immediately, I discovered more interesting ideas:
1. What if we were all ranked, assigned visible numbers that rated us as people?
2. What if people were happy and comfortable with being ruled?
3. In this world of magic and dragons, what would happen if one person didn't have any magic? What if he was just a regular kid?
Where did I get those ideas? The first one just came from me wondering. The others grew out of my writing and editing.
I can talk about Dragon Run, though. That book started out with a simple question: "wouldn't it be cool if dragons ran the world?"
Almost immediately, I discovered more interesting ideas:
1. What if we were all ranked, assigned visible numbers that rated us as people?
2. What if people were happy and comfortable with being ruled?
3. In this world of magic and dragons, what would happen if one person didn't have any magic? What if he was just a regular kid?
Where did I get those ideas? The first one just came from me wondering. The others grew out of my writing and editing.
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