Inside the writer's brain

[jhetley]

(Not a safe place.)

So David's sitting in a canoe in the marsh, listening to Khe'sha teach the dragon chants to his nestlings. Once the nestlings know their history, Khe'sha can allow himself to die. It's that pair-bond thing with his dead mate Sha'khe again.

So David is thinking, "How do you treat a dragon for depression?"

But his brain keeps setting the words to "How do you solve a problem like Maria?"

Any filkers want to have at it?

Comments

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

"How do you treat a dragon for depression?
How do you make his blues turn upside-down?
How do you help a dragon with depression?
A fellow-with-the-dark-blues dragon who's got a frown?"

Not great, I know, but it came to me. *blush*

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

How do you treat a dragon for depression?
How do you make a dragon want to live?
What can a simple human give a dragon,
Mumblemumblemumble...

[novel-tharkun.livejournal.com]

How do you treat a dragon for depression?
How do you make a dragon want to live?
When you're but a simple human,
What does he want that you have got to give?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Go! Next?

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Oh, and one big hint for helping that depressed dragon:

Don't. Sing. "Puff the Magic Dragon". Ever.

(One of the most depressing childhood songs on record, yet strangely one I still like.)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Nooooo!

How do you treat a dragon for depression?
How do you make a dragon want to live?
How can you make him stay, what can you do or say,
What does he need that humans have to give?

(Current version, in Chapter V)

(David, contemplating the dosage of Prozac needed for a multi-ton reptile...)