SEBUAH NOVEL BERBAHASA INGGRIS
The Cronicles of The Dragron Brethren:
THE THUNDER - Book Three
Narendra Stanislaus Martosudarmo
(13,5 x 23) cm; 168 hlm; bookpaper; 2015
ISBN: 978-602-72623-1-7
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The
Chronicles of the Dragon Brethren is a series of novels that I am
currently writing. The characters in the novels are all dragons, and I
am basing nearly all of them on my friends and peers from the school
that I am currently studying. I am the main character in the story.
Because every one of my peers and friends have been so helpful and
friendly towards me, I want to dedicate these novels to them by naming
and basing the characters after each of them, and making them all
dragons in my novels.
There
are seven different species of dragons in the novels and each and every
one of my friends is portrayed as a dragon that shares the same
personalities and appearances as them in real life. For example, if some
of my friends are social, fast, and agile, their dragon is the
Skyscale, a dragon that is speedy and alert on land or in air, and can
shoot streams of wind from its mouth, as well as creating large gusts of
wind by flapping its wings. If some of my friends are strong,
courageous, and athletic, their dragon is the Flamefang, a large dragon
that is fierce in battle, able to breathe copious amount of fire, and
has the nasty habit of setting itself on fire to deter its enemies.
Because I have quite a different personality than my friends, my dragon
is the Thundertalon, the rarest and the fastest of all the dragons that
has razor-sharp wings, a deadly roar, and the capability of shooting
streams of lightning from its mouth.
Like
all main protagonists in many fantasy novels, I needed to have a love
interest to add some romantic moments in the story. Because I see every
girl in my grade as my sisters, I needed to find somebody outside my
school to be my love interest. I do have numerous friends, some who are
girls and are not at my school, but there is one girl in particular who
has been very kind, helpful, and understanding towards me over the past
few months. She and I have many things in common and I thought she could
be my best friend in the first novel of the series, and later on will
become my love interest in the novels that follow as our friendship
grows into something that is much more powerful.
The
story of how we met happened around 3 years ago. I was joining a youth
camp at a resort, in the mountains of Bogor. The weather was mildly cool
and the temperature of the air was cold, but much colder in the night. I
was out sitting on a bench near the swimming pool looking for ideas and
inspiration to write a novel and so far, it was not much of a success.
Just when I was starting to run out of ideas, a female voice greeted me
from behind. I turned around and I saw her for the very first time. She
was around my age, a little shorter than me, with long, gleaming black
hair, dark brown eyes, and a friendly smile. We introduced ourselves and
she told me that our parents and older sisters were friends, so I
immediately thought the two of us could be friends too. Since then, we
spent a lot of time together around the resort. One night, I told her
that I was looking for inspiration to write a novel. She then said that
my story should be something about forming friendships, fighting
enemies, and finding love, so that hopefully the book could become a
best seller one day. I said to her that I’ve got great friends at my
school, and I’ve learnt to stand up against those who have bossed me
around and that I was on a sole quest to find the right girl for me. She
then replied that sometimes love can be found in one of our closest
friends.
Within
minutes I was struck with dozens of inspirations. I decided to write a
novel that would contain friendship, action, mystery, comedy, and
romance. She then added that the novel could be a part of a much bigger
story, and that inspired me to write a series of novels. I was also
inspired at the thought of the characters being my friends as dragons
because dragons have fascinated me ever since I was a small kid. Since
that night, I thanked her and owed her one big time, and she said no
problem. When the holidays were about to end, she and I said our
farewells, and I promised that I would dedicate my novel to her. That
was the origin of the creation of ‘The Chronicles of the Dragon
Brethren.’
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