The Big Idea: John Wiswell

We all hear voices in our brain, but what if they were coming from your other heads?!? Author John Wiswell’s main character is a multi-headed dragon with a lot of contradicting opinions. Though a dragon, you may find his inner turmoil more relatable than you’d expect. Take flight in his Big Idea for The Dragon Has Some Complaints. JOHN WISWELL: A dragon is a lot like ADHD. I’ve always loved dragons. How can you not like dragons? They’re like if someone glued all the cool parts of dinosaurs together and then let them barf fire. Anyone who’s ever been stuck in traffic admires the incendiary nature of dragons. Most interesting to me are many-headed dragons. They’re referenced in ancient Greek classics, suggesting we’ve always had such things on our minds. Yet in most stories, the many-headed dragon is just a single-minded critter with more mouths that they can use to bite the protagonist. You’re lucky if one head on a dragon’s shoulders gets a personality. Much less all of them. In one…