the world of creatures...

So, you can pretty much let your imagination rule while you are writing a fantasy. The characters can have any power you want them too, providing it's believable;)
For me, the biggest challenge for me is remembering every little thing each of my characters can do, on top of creating a personality to fit them. Some creatures can fly, like the griffon for instance. Actually, I LOVE griffons. They are the cross of an eagle and lion, the combination of the king of the beast and the king of the sky. The stand for the protection of the divine. In my book, there are 2 griffons that you meet, face to face. The happen to be the body guards of the respected Mansur, who, as it turns out, is of royal dragon blood.

Meet our Griffons: Jasper, is a jester, laid back, but loyal and protective. On the other hand, his older brother, Montoya, is much more serious, uptight with the same amount of, if not a little more, loyalty and protectiveness.

The other day, I went to the library and got some books out. I was pretty excited to rent a novel about a dragon family. I've been reading it and some things are interesting... but at the same time, it's a book of love and treachery. I almost could envision it as a Jane Austen, only with dragons who eat their deceased relatives. I think i was shocked when the Father died and the parson picked his eyes out, eating them as the allotted fare of the blessed parson. Even more shocking was the fact that his family was hovering in the rooms above, waiting to devour his flesh as soon as his life was gone from his body. The book is named :Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton. I am not sure that i will finish it. But it has been interesting in the least. The image that all dragons are horrid, blood thirsty creatures was reversed in the latest DreamWorks film, How to train your Dragon. My favorite character in the animation is Toothless, the Night Fury. The whole portrayal of the dragon was endearing. Drawing from the inspiration abound me in the world of fantasy, I hope to create something new. Something fun, exciting and fascinating. A book where fairies and dragons meet, griffins and Wolgars clash, and where ultimately, right triumphs over evil.

Introduction to my new book...

I'm not sure where I'm going with this fantastic story that has rumbled around my head for years, but I figured I would blog about it. I kind of hit a wall in my writing... they call it writer's block, but I must be the queen of writer's block because my brain is just not skipping past it.

The Silver Shore novel is a twist off of several situations in my life as well as, strange as it seems, several dreams as well.

Somewhere in the distance, there lay a country called, Silver Shore. The crystal, mint-blue waters of the rivers and sea lap on shores of silver sand. In this land of life and harmony, there entered creatures of the wasteland, Devil's pit, whose leader, a cruel and powerful vampire bat, sought after the blood of the purest creatures in the forest. The kingdom was overthrown and the animals and creatures went into hiding, until one day, a very special fairy was attacked. From then on, things began to change...

Here is where my book begins. It's perhaps, by far, the biggest book I have attempted to write and altho I only have 15, 000 words written of it, I am not even half way there. I honestly would like to get the 1st draft written by the end of this year and submit it to my publisher by Christmas of next year.

But, until i submit it to my publisher, I'm going to work on it...and you can feel free to offer any ideas or thoughts you have about it! On the bottom of my blog is the lists of the main characters, with the exception of the most important One. He's the one that I need YOUR help on!! He's a beautiful, majestic Bald Eagle...and he is the One that will ultimately right the wrong and restore peace back to the kingdom of Silver Shore.

However, he has no name. C.S. Lewis took the Turkish word for lion, Aslan and created an amazing character in his series of the Chronicles of Narnia. Using his idea, I searched for "Eagle" in several different languages. Here's a list of what I came up with:
Old Norse for Eagle: Arkell
Polish for eagle: Orzel
Turkish for eagle: Kartal
Arabic for Eagle: Nasr

Straying from the actual word "eagle" I searched for other ideas like: Norwegian word for strength "Styrke" or Hungarian word for warrior "Andor".

So far these are the best candidates, but if you're looking at them and saying, "None of them even come close to fitting a Bald Eagle!" then you are in the same boat as me. So, I would love to hear from you on what you think is a good name for an Eagle!