Is today a GOOD DAY?

We all have those good days and bad days. What we hope for is many more of those good ones!

Most books tend to have a central protagonist that is having a succession of bad days, one after another after another. They are being tested after agreeing to take on a quest, make a change in life, or they've just stood up for the first time and spat in the face of adversity.

Every "hero" goes through the mill. They are punished, broken at times, and yet, by the end, we hope, they have found the internal strength to rise yet again and finally, bloody and weary, they defeat their opponent.

This is what makes all those stories so great. It is over-coming the challenges that make the "hero" stronger, and quite often they only succeed with the help of friends. A party of strangers brought together by fate, a group of like-minded folks who want the same thing, people who are loyal to ideal or to a cause. The "hero" is never alone in their battles.

It reminds of the Dragonlance quote; Good redeems itself, while Evil turns in upon itself and is self-defeating.

It remined me so much that I looked up an old article I had written back in 2014 for Fantasy-Faction about the Dragonlance books and this very ethos check that out here - it is still a good article and relevant today.

We want our heroes to reach that moment when the GOOD DAYS are laid out before them, ready to enjoy.

And yet, we often mourn the passing of the book, that it has come to end as we want to know more, what happened next, where do they go, what is their life life?

That's probably the mark of a very GOOD book.