I think I was about eleven or so old when I woke up from a very bizarre dream (actually, it happens a lot). At the time I thought it was a great story idea, but I didn't know what to do with it, so I put it aside. Now some years later, I was sitting in school, dazing out when the memory of it came rushing back. I had already finished my first two stories, both which were so poorly written I can't bring myself to publish them, and I wanted to start my third. After all they say practice makes perfect. And just to make sure I was prepared to write better, I studied the writing of contemporary authors and studied story building.
This is how the dream went: I was a clerk in a really messy trinket store, working beside a rabbit organizing things. When all the sudden a fox in a suit came in and grabbed a trinket that produced money and tried to run away. Infuriated, I chased after it. But the moment I stepped outside I woke up.
For some reason that became the inspiration for this book.
Anyway, the story starts in a fantasy world where the main character is a contract writer who was placed under house arrest. When all the sudden her life is disrupted by a fox in a suit who steals from the her grandmother's shop (where she's working) and runs off. Along with her guardian, she goes chasing down the fox. Later, she's joined by several other fun characters and the quest takes her on an adventure in foreign lands with crazy things happening. The motto for the story was originally "a dream with a drop of reality".
I included a map with the book and it looks something like this:
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