Taking Flight: Prologue

Here's a sneak peak for 2017!

 Aero is a dragon who is unable to fly. Most dragons at his age can fly and some are lucky enough to have riders. Aero is a camouflage dragon with purple eyes. His wings are in the form in which none of the other dragons have. He is heavier than most dragons but also has four wings similar to a bat. Where he lives most dragons have two wings and are of one color. In the town where Aero lives, he is asked to leave in order to keep his parents alive. Around the city are smaller towns consisting of many trades between different types of mythical creatures. He first decides to move to one of these towns until his name becomes a curse among the land. He is not sure why, but someone or something is after him. This story takes places two years after he has been on the run. Aero is now fourteen but has learned enough about the world to mask enough of his past. He hasn’t seen a dragon in two years. He is one with the human world and tries to live the way they live. However, one fate is for certain. He cannot run from his reflection, for the water shows the truth in what he actually is.

Questions Over Previous Stories

  Since there is not a clear path for my future and whether or not I can continue this blog soon after a month of preparing I will go ahead and answer some questions that may be going through your head.Yes, I love you all enough to continue. However, the time in which I am able to be on a device that will let me write and a quiet place to retreat to is limited, I can only do what I can.

  Question 1: Will you be continuing Revelation of Dragons?

    I cannot say I won't because I want to continue. However, unless the road clears for the next few months I cannot allow all of you to be sitting on the edge of your seats for something that I may not create. The world of Revelation of Dragons will continue to exist but at this moment time I will not be continuing. With all the passion in my heart, I am sorry.

  Question 2: Will you be continue the Percy Jackson Fanfiction "The Descendant"?

    If you are a fan of the Percy Jackson series. There are many series Rick Riordan has written. (He is also from Texas by the way :3). The following series are: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Heroes of Olympus, The Kane Chronicles, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, and The Apollo Trials. He has many more books as well. However, these are the ones that I know of and have read up until this post.

  Will I continue the fanfiction? Again, I want to. However, it is not a focus I have at this moment.

  Question 3: Do you still run the Dragon Dungeon tumblr?

    Due to Yahoo buying out Tumblr, adding on ads, and infecting Tumblr with viruses (like it does with anything else it touches). No. I would like to start another dragon blog in the future if it were possible. However, from my experience with yahoo (not saying everyone should stop using the browser if you prefer it). I am willing to interact with the website any longer.

  This also includes the Dragon Gallery and Dragon Newsfeed. 

  Question 4: Do you still use DeviantART?

    For the most part... No. Keeping up with the dragons on that website is fun. However, it has also caused me virus problems and as I mentioned in the previous question I have no place to put the art, easily anyway.

  (Further Explanation) When it came to linking the DeviantARTs to Tumblr, all I had to do was press a button and add the tags. And even then all I did was copy and past tags and references. If I were to do that on this blog in a different page all together I would have to look up how to code everything. (Not saying that I am not willing to do so because I find coding fun) However, again. I do have the time to set up another dragon blog.

Question 5: Will you be using Facebook?

    I hardly do in my personal life. So this one has always been a *shrug* situation for me. I haven't logged into the facebook I connect all of you with for months. I cannot say I will start now. What I am saying is, probably not.

    If you want to get a hold of me, please email me. You all know my email address but I'll place it here anyway.

  Lusterdragon72@gmail.com

Question 6: Will you be updating "Other Dragon Stories"?

  When you click on that tab it sends you to the Tumblr page that I created. No, I will not update that page. However, I will make a page that specifically stays on this blog that serves the same purpose. That way, all of you can continue to share your writings with me and I can avoid using Tumblr. The link will be announced when I get it done.

  Submit to me the writings that you all have whether it's Wattpad, a blog, on Tumblr, ANYWHERE. I do not personally care. I want to let everyone who interacts with me to hear you all out because all of you have a voice, why not let it out?
 
Question 7: Will you be using Wattpad?

    No. I applaud the website for it's purpose. To share stories among all writing levels. The problem I have with this website is the same for Tumblr and for DevianART I've had many virus issues with these websites. I will, add your story to the page. I don't mind! However, I will not be participating on Wattpad any longer.

Question 8: Would you be willing to read my story and review it?

    I am not here to criticize anyone's writing any longer. I do not have the time for it. Not to sound rude. I mentioned at the begging that I am already on a tight schedule. There are many people out there willing to criticize your work. All I will do is share it so that it gets views.

  Question 9: Will the post for this new story be posted weekly?

    That is my plan! That's is why I said 52 parts. This does not mean I will finish the story. Although, I need to get better at ending my stories rather than continuing them to go on forever.

  Question 10: Are we allowed to know what's going on in your personal life?

    I probably worded that question weird for all of you. But the point is this. Everyone has their ups and downs in life. At this time I'm not exactly in a complete bad position but I am not in one that is easily dealt with. I rather all of you focus on your life and hope for the best. You can check up on me on Google+ if you'd like. But no, I am not going to get into details of what is going on at this moment.

  If these 10 questions didn't clear up anything for you. You all are open to email me. Please put a title that doesn't look like Spam and I will answer ASAP.

Thank you all,

Danieljames Domar

About "Taking Flight"

  There are many quest that I wish to accomplish for myself. Writing wise, I have always wanted to expand on my vocabulary. Over the years I have tried to push my expanse in vocabulary with different blogs but I've come to settle on handling this one. I love mythology and I know all of you out there love it as well.

  The purpose of "Taking Flight" is to bring back the world that I created in Revelation of Dragons. It takes place at a different time than Rev of Dragons but the worlds are still the same. Since, I haven't lived anywhere besides Texas I tend to gear every character starting in this state. After all, it is my home.

  This story will contain vocabulary words from the Sadlier-Oxford websites. At school, when I was in English (before I started college courses my sophomore year in high school) the vocabulary assignments geared towards the Sadlier-Oxford vocabulary.

  My goal one day is to be a teacher and I hope that I can get this set up now so I can refer to it in the future. Each post will contain about one thousand words to keep things simple and will be broken into parts as each is written and exceeds or does not exceed one thousand words.

  There will also be a pairing of each post to the set of vocabulary words I used. This way if anyone is interested in learning new vocabulary or seeing how I used the word they are welcome to easily access it. What I will do for each word is link it to it's definition based on dictionary.com. This will only be linked to the first use of the word in each chapter. If I reuse the world through a chapter it will not be underlined for clear reading purposes.

  Depending on what the vocabulary word is I shall be reusing it through the chapters. What I will try to do is use each word three times in order to give enough examples on how the word is used. Now, of course I will not be using each word in a literal sense all the time. If I wrote like that, my stories would be bland. Hopefully, this can help those who are interested in learning new vocabulary.

  In the Sadlier-Oxford vocabulary books there are different levels of vocabulary. I will be starting with Level A until I reach Level H. Level A vocabulary is meant to be for 6th graders (in America). I am unsure what grade that would be in Europe or anywhere since I know that there are different school systems around the world.

  What I've learned about my audience is that I do not actually have a higher percentage of views overall from the Americas. (Which is neat! Don't get me wrong). This is why I make it a point to try and expand language, history, and references so that I can learn about my audience as well as learn about mythology.

  This will be the third year for this blog and even though I haven't been able to keep it up constantly I am still overjoyed that I have viewers. Thank you all. And hopefully you will enjoy this story as well. My main focus for 2017 will be to complete 52 post while writing "Taking Flight" and using at least 52 units in the Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary books.

  I am open to linking my viewers stories through my blog as well. Whether it is mythology based or not. PLEASE submit to me any writings that you would like to get out there. Because we all start somewhere. Why not start here?

Email: Lusterdragon72@gmail.com

Quest for 2017

  For those of you who still check this blog out since I've created it in 2014 I want to give you all a thanks. As of right now my life may be changing drastically and I cannot control a lot of what is going on around me so, since I do have a few minutes to myself for now I will be working on bringing you all a story to enjoy for what time I can.

  My goal in making this blog was geared towards researching mythology. I still love reading about it and gathering the information together. However, I've come to find how difficult it is to say steady with this and my actual life. So, this is what I am going to do.

  Since I have time now, I'll start  writing you all a story that hopefully you will like. Feedback is something I would love but I also don't check my email 24/7 so for those of you who check up on me and any updates I'm happy enough. Spread the world, show people that you like this blog and would like them to get into it as well.

  There's a lot I need to fix on this blog but for now I will do this. I won't actually post any of the story until January that way I have some time to think this all over. But feel free to email me and tell me what you'd like me to research.

  Again, for those of you who have come back after all these months. Thank you. And for those of you who happen to stumble upon this blog, feel free to browse. There's a lot to read and I tried to organize it to the best of my ability.

Hope you all enjoy, 

Danieljames Domar