Brandon's Dinosaur Novel

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This will be similar to Robert Bakker's Raptor Red in that it is set in the Mesozoic era and has dinosaurs for characters. The MC will be a male Tyrannosaurus rex who is growing up in Late Cretaceous Mexico. I'm currently working on the first scene, which is about his hatching. Does this sound interesting to you?

I'm not familiar with Bakker, but that does sound like an interesting story. Good luck with it!

First scene written, and yes, the protagonist does face danger in it---before he's hatched, actually.

Will it make paleontologists cry?

I'll be honest: I'm losing enthusiasm for the project. The problem I have is that I don't know if an interesting plot can be created with an animal whose main goals in life are "eat, mate, and die". It seems that most of the scenes I can think up are repetitive action scenes in which my T. rex confronts some other animal or peril, and none of them are unified by any theme. Project aborted.

I've never read Raptor Red, so I'm really not familiar with that novel. But your novel sounds fascinating.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

It's okay to dump a project you realize is going nowhere. But don't throw it away. I liked the sound of the beginning, in danger before hatching. Maybe what you have is a short story instead of a novel. Or maybe you could make these aliens..........