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Apr 2021

OMG. I just read your first episode and wow. You have an amazing art style! So far I like what I see and what I'm reading! I'll probably read all of it tomorrow!

If I would give a word, it would be PURPOSE

hard to choose just one word.
Main points of my comic are ghosts, grim reaper, fights, guiding lost souls to the afterlife.. but its not the word behind my story...
maybe Help


Escapism
- the tendency to seek distraction and relief from reality, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy.

Any and all stories.

Coping

Heart:heart: , that heart is not someone else's but mine.

Run

I have to admit that piqued my curiosity. What do you mean by that exactly? Is it the reader that is escaping or the MC?

The one that keeps coming to mind for Dragon Sparking is:
Overcome
Determination to put down any obstacles in ones path to victory is key to my story. Triumph only comes through hard work, pain, and self motivation, and that's how I portray my protagonists. No matter what gets thrown their way, they'll adapt and conquer.

This is a lovely question and nice food for thought. I thought it would take longer for me to summarize it into one word, but when I thought about the characters I'm working with, their dynamics, and the direction I want to take the story, It became pretty obvious.

Acceptance would be at the core of all the magical happenings and mashups in my comic when I strip it down and sum it up :purple_heart:

Escapism is the basic fundamental quality of every good fictional story, for the writer at the time of writing and the reader at the time of reading.

A good fictional story makes the writer and readers live the events therein, to experience the narrative as if one is right there when the events unfold. Mostly written in ‘show’ and seldom in ‘tell’ helps bring that quality to a good fictional story.

You become the tenth member of the fellowship of the ring. You become the bird that soars above the hobbits as they march to win back their homeland. You sit with the rest in anticipation of Hari Seldon’s next epistle from the past. You swing a mighty axe in the battlefields of Hyboria, and quaff sour ale with the pirates as Belit does the dance of death to ensnare her man. You ride hard with the Rohirrim, you slay Orcs and Uruks. You hide from the Nazgul under the trees with the boys. You cheer with the crowd as Elizabeth scores the winning point. You revel with Moonface in the lands atop the Faraway Tree. You run alongside Roy Race as he unleashes the fabled Racey’s Rocket. You revel in Sheev Palpatine’s malice as he manipulates his way up in life.

That’s Escapism. That which takes you away from the humdrum of reality for a while and makes life worth living. That is the motivating factor (the one word the OP asks for) that drives me to read stories, and to write stories. To write from the ambient perspective of every character in the story, regardless of how big the role is, as the story matters more than the sum of its characters.

Of the two novelized stories that I have on this website, I do precisely that. Escape to another dimension of make believe and fantasy for a while, and hope that readers have the same experience while reading my works as I have had writing them.

Disclaimer – Stated above is in entirety my opinion from personal experience and execution.

Overcoming should be the one for this novel

Discovery for this one alongside surviving

Rock