Glaring Dragon/Dog

I knew I should be writing today, but life was busy. I really knew Jess' dragon was mad at me as his writer when I drove off for a walk instead. As I turned my car around a Schnauzer was glaring at me from my neighbors window.

Keep in mind my neighbor doesn't have a dog. But there he was staring right into my guilty writer's mind. Jess's dragon is a Giant Schnauzer. Some times in the writer's life characters take on a life of their own. Jess' dragon has done just that.

Wolf Island: How I met Jess' Dragon

I first met Jess' Dragon at the House of Mystery, Oregon Vortex. Jess my hero in my YA Wolf Island (working title) came into my writing life in San Francisco. His dragon, my creation appeared after I visited the Oregon Vortex.

Sighing, Jess leaned back against the wall of the cabin and closed his eyes in relief. Suddenly he saw! Just a flicker but he saw it. A Dragon! A dragon trapped…No… growing out of the Madrone tree chained to the twisted planked shed.

Jess shook his head. No the dragon was the Madrone tree or was the tree the dragon? He opened his eyes, before him was the red hued Madrone tree. He blinked slowly then he saw it again a blue golden, long body Chinese dragon. The heavy thick chain was anchored by a large iron ball dangling in mid air. The dragon seemed to be hibernating, frozen in place and time.