August was a bad month. I had a medical procedure that slowed me down and soured my mood, but I still worked on my story. This story means a lot to me. I want to finish it.

As I worked, I found I needed to add earlier in the story references to foreshadow dragon traits and instincts. Also, when I wrote the lines shown below, I realized I need to reimagine, and rewrite, the world’s flora and fauna to account for monsoon cycles. Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive series is a good example of such worldbuilding.

I’m charging onward.

When Hope came to the forest, she saw something new: the animals were also doing everyone run around in a panic making their own preparations for monsoon. It had never occurred to her that the animals were attuned to monsoon cycles.