Somewhere Beneath Those Waves
Hi Friends,
Let’s begin out discussion on this book. Draco Campestris is the first story.
Did you like the story? Did you understand it?
The story is fragmented. Did that work for you or not? If it did, what helped? If it did not work, why do you think that is?
What does an author gain from fragmenting the work? What does it cost the author?
In short stories, I am intrigued with worldbuilding. In this story, there was so much to establish. Did it work for you? What did you struggle to understand? What might have helped?
These are just a few questions. Raise whatever you want and we can discuss it.
Let’s begin out discussion on this book. Draco Campestris is the first story.
Did you like the story? Did you understand it?
The story is fragmented. Did that work for you or not? If it did, what helped? If it did not work, why do you think that is?
What does an author gain from fragmenting the work? What does it cost the author?
In short stories, I am intrigued with worldbuilding. In this story, there was so much to establish. Did it work for you? What did you struggle to understand? What might have helped?
These are just a few questions. Raise whatever you want and we can discuss it.
Before talking about whether or not it worked (because I'm confused and honestly can't answer that yet) these are some topics that stood out and by teasing these apart we might understand if it worked or not.
ReplyDeleteDreams
The Lady Archangel
Tithe children
Death and Preservation
The Director
Dragons
Loss of humanity
I was very intrigued by this "dream" thing. So far to me a "dream" in the dragon world doesn't seem any different than what a dream is to us, it's just something that's more vocalized in the dragon world and seems to be put on a pedestal. But I also wonder if it's something that has the power to cause physical or metaphysical change.
The tithe children dream "as every living creature must" but since they are trapped in this place of preservation and death, they don't have any hope of achieving their dreams so they become these warped creatures that are no longer human, as if humanity is tied to the ability to achieve their dreams. Likewise, the director is also no longer a "flesh and blood woman," if ever she was. She sits on the Seat of Dragons and her dream is the museum, the preservation of dragons. So the actualization of her dream has physically changed her into something more the same way that the stifled dreams of the tithe children have changed them into something less.