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Friday, July 29, 2011

Step One of the snowflake method

1. Write a one-sentence summary of your novel.
When I first started with this, my idea was a prince who was jealous of his older brother being king and wanted to take over the kingdom.  In order to do this, the prince made a pact with the red dragons to aid him in taking it over.

This was my sentence: A greedy second born prince tries to take over the kingdom by decimating the good dragons and thereby gaining the support of the evil red dragons.

As I started doing research on dragons and such, I ran across the Dungeons and Dragons wiki.  That of course had lots of information on dragons and magic and lots of the things I wanted to put into my book.  I started exploring the various lands of the forgotten realms and ran across a race of people called the Imaskari.  These humans were very advanced in magic, but they became too arrogant and their magic backfired.  Their magical creatures ended up attacking them and the Imaskari sealed themselves underground to survive.  

According to the history, the seal to the underground has opened and the Imaskari are venturing out.  I thought what a great story if they want to reestablish their old empire.  Perfect!
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Once, the Imaskari were a great nation. In Deep Imaskar in the Underdark, the Imaskari are growing more and more resentful of the High Imaskari above the surface. They want to reestablish their old empire. To accomplish this, they have made a deal with the evil red dragons. In exchange for the destruction of their foes, the metallic dragons, the red dragons will help wreak havoc on those inhabiting the ancient lands of the Imaskari.

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