I on a random roll from a huge list am writing about werewolves this year. I am really getting interested in the genre and would love to talk to other people about it. Let's post our ideas...add each other as friends and perhaps, sniff a butt or two. With a few rawhide bones we might get through this month. Join us....
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"If we can hit this bullseye, all the dominos will fall like a house of cards...checkmate!"
-Zap Brannigan
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Oct 28, 2007 - 18 47
Yeah!! I love werewolves! They are so prreeeeetty and fluufffy! XD. I am totally writing about them, so count me in!
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Mini excerpt-
“The dead can’t die!” Maggie objected.
Dow sighed. “Oh now you’re just being didactic.”
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Oct 28, 2007 - 19 16
I do not come to this genre by choice.
So *there I was* minding my own business three days ago, kicking a cozy murder mystery and/or my serious WWII novel around in my head when I saw a grizzled guy in a wolf teeshirt with a cane limping into our local hardware store. Before my husband and I got home from our shopping I had a plot a-brewing. If I'd thought I'd be writing a paranormal, I'd have paid more attention to the horror seminars in the writer's conference I just attended. (My husband *is* a student of the genre, and thinks I have a great premise.)
So I'm just going to lurk a bit and let you alpha dogs figure it out....
But first I'll ask you for handy werewolf resources, preferably online. Where does the newbie in the pack go for information and inspiration?
Much obliged.
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Oct 28, 2007 - 21 02
I would head to wikipedia....and type in werewolf. Not to be trite but they have some interesting stuff there. It is down to the wire but I would be happy to point out some books etc you might like.
----------"If we can hit this bullseye, all the dominos will fall like a house of cards...checkmate!"
-Zap Brannigan
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Oct 28, 2007 - 21 05
So I was wondering what point of view people are going to take. The werewolf as the bad guy, the main character, or some sort of world where there are a lot of werewolves?
----------"If we can hit this bullseye, all the dominos will fall like a house of cards...checkmate!"
-Zap Brannigan
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Oct 28, 2007 - 22 04
well for a while i've been working on a werewolf novel and since i don't want to cheat with many pages already written, i might as well write about them for this since they are an interest of mine. i'm playing with the idea of a whole town or city gradually being transformed into werewolves and causing terror as part of a worldwide conspiracy. i'm not sure if some of the werewolves should rebel or if some horribly disfigured victims of the werewolves survive and fight back, or maybe introduce a new monster. i think cat people or leopard men would be cool, or werefoxes.
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Oct 28, 2007 - 22 05
Meee!!! *raises hand* I have a ton of were's in general but this time around the werewolve's are coming out en masse.
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Oct 29, 2007 - 00 09
I'm doing a wolfy too!
I'm basing my mythos on the one in cobbled together for a movie script I did for school. In fact, I riped off the title of that for this story. It was called "Moonlighters" while this one is called "The Moonlighter". I think my setup was a bit better in the script though, more realistic, faster paced, fits the modern cinema better. This one is like a 40's horror movie in an modern urban setting. So it's kinda silly.
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Oct 29, 2007 - 05 32
I'm in....i already got one werewolf novel under my belt...this year I'm writing a second one!
My werewolves are the protagonist. I get my inspiration off of the kelley armstrong books.
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Oct 29, 2007 - 10 32
Yup, yup. I as well am taking on werewolves- the protagonists.
I still have a few questions for myself, including hierarchy structure, and whether or not I'll be a doing the tradition werewolf style, or branching out into a Laurell K. Hamilton type deal. Many questions, so little time.
But feel free to add me as a friend.
: )
- Nicole
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Oct 29, 2007 - 17 18
I have some werewolf v. self conflict, so a little of both? Also, I haven't decided if Iliad ends up being an antagonist or not. What do you think? "Iliad" does it sound like an good guy or a bad guy.
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2008 - ???
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2007 - Zion Andrews
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Mini excerpt-
“The dead can’t die!” Maggie objected.
Dow sighed. “Oh now you’re just being didactic.”
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Oct 29, 2007 - 18 13
I don't have a werewolf, but I will have a shape-shifting monster that hides in a human skin. Can I still unite with the werewolf writers?
----------"I think the point is to make us despair. To see ourselves as... animal and ugly. To make us reject the possibility that God could love us."
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Oct 29, 2007 - 22 05
Ooh this is my favorite topic of conversation. Self conflict is what makes werewolves. That's why they are so far superior to vampires. Because werewolves have souls.
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Oct 29, 2007 - 19 31
I plan on writing a werewolf novel. Once the first starts rolling around and we all get writing and I get to a particular scene near the beginning (which kicks off the novel) I'll have an excerpt there for you all.
Anyway, as to the werewolf as the antagonist or protagonist, my story will be different from several stories. I plan to go a Ginger Snaps-esque route with it. If anybody has seen the Ginger Snaps movies, they deal with growing up and that kind of thing; teenage angst, sex, personal problems and all that good stuff that high school teenagers go through.
It's called 'Blood Brothers' and I plan them to be a series of books.
----------Kody Boye
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Oct 30, 2007 - 09 09
I'm going to be starting my third werewolf novel this year, my wolves tend to be my MC, though I'm going to have some bad guys this year too, which will be a new thing for me. My first story was a Werewolf PI, whose best friend was a vampire. She was alot of fun, and pretty comical in the end. My second story was about a girl in her mid twenties who got infected when she went in to a tattoo parlor to get a tattoo, the entire shop was owned and run by a werewolf pack, and its a story of how she dealt with becoming a werewolf and integrating herself in both werewolf and the tatto culture.
This year I'm writing a Young Adult werewolf story, my main character moves to a new town and finds that no one will socialize with her at school. She goes to a party, to try to fit in more, and gets infected and sexually assalted. All of a sudden shes in with the kids at school, but she has to deal with everything that has happened to her, and the fact that the price of fitting in isn't always worth it.
What I'm really having trouble with is the title, I just can't come up with one that doesn't sound silly. Any suggestions?
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Oct 30, 2007 - 17 43
I'd like to know why Zap didn't use the famous, "Bingo!" line instead of the domino theory with the house of cards, and for triple and fourple effect, the bullseye, and checkmate. See my point, why not Bingo, or Batta Boom Batta Bing, Bingo.
Werewolf's are the stuff of legend, and it seems that legend must be incorporated into the book of only fifty thousand words, and that might be difficult. I recall that movie Underworld, which really seemed to have stole a whole genre of stuff in it's title. The Underworld is where all this stuff has to happen, in the sewers and in the catacombs under Paris, and like that. Can there be any other setting, I ask you.
----------Chris E Casey
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Oct 30, 2007 - 17 46
I'd like to know why Zap didn't use the famous, "Bingo!" line instead of the domino theory with the house of cards, and for triple and fourple effect, the bullseye, and checkmate. See my point, why not Bingo, or Batta Boom Batta Bing, Bingo.
Werewolf's are the stuff of legend, and it seems that legend must be incorporated into the book of only fifty thousand words, and that might be difficult. I recall that movie Underworld, which really seemed to have stole a whole genre of stuff in it's title. The Underworld is where all this stuff has to happen, in the sewers and in the catacombs under Paris, and like that. Can there be any other setting, I ask you.
----------Chris E Casey
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Oct 30, 2007 - 18 24
Hi :) I'm peeking out of the Fantasy forum that I usually peruse to say that while my story is going to be fantasy, not horror, I have a werewolf character in mine, as well! He won't be the MC, but I decided to include him because the creatures in my novel will be these demon-wolves that start attacking my MC's group of friends and allies, and I thought it'd be neat to have one wolf they come in contact with actually being a werewolf. Then the novel will focus on how the group deals with him emotionally and socially, because the demon-wolves are evil creatures, and the group keeps associating my werewolf with them, when he's just a good guy (or tries to be). I'm so excited!
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50,000 words or bust...
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Oct 30, 2007 - 23 30
Currently I'm trying to get as much done of a "werewolf adopts human girl then falls in love with her but she wants to kill him" novella before NaNo starts, but I'll be having a werewolf in my novel too. The general premise is of anti-monster (unromantic Prohibition vampire, an Abominable Snowwoman, etc) group, so of course I have a werewolf in that. She's six years old, loves pink and Barbie, and loves to nibble on the zombie leader. Her name is Lucia and though she would eventually grow up to be the bad@$$ killing machine, for now she'll suffice enjoying lollipops and Shirley Temple movies.
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Oct 31, 2007 - 08 58
What I'm going to write is a prequel to the novel I'm working on. This is featuring a somewhat minor character from my WIP as MC in this story. I've had this story in the back of my head since about chapter 3 of my novel, but I haven't typed a word of it. I'm twisting were and vamp mythology, the story is set in eastern Europe during the 1700's and my MC is one of the first to turn into a were. So this is about his family, his struggles with who did this to him (because the weres and vamps aren't the bad guys here), how he deals with being confined to close quarters with vampires, and so on and on.
What I'm going for is a sort of gothic horror, a story much more violent than my novel. Not sure if I can pull it off, but here's to sleepless nights of trying!
----------I'll come to you tonight, dear, when it's late,
You will not see me; you may feel a chill.
I'll wait until you sleep, then take my fill,
And that will be your future on a plate.
They'll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate.
-Neil Gaiman
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Oct 31, 2007 - 09 18
Bingo is a game of many people; chess implies a victory over an opponent.
50,000 words may be a hard for something like a werewolf novel but then again only romance novels regularly come in at around that so it’s a bourdon everybody struggles with. I imagine I will hit 50,000 then keep writing.
----------"If we can hit this bullseye, all the dominos will fall like a house of cards...checkmate!"
-Zap Brannigan
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Oct 31, 2007 - 09 29
Bingo is a game of many people; chess implies a victory over an opponent.
50,000 words may be a hard for something like a werewolf novel but then again only romance novels regularly come in at around that so it’s a bourdon everybody struggles with. I imagine I will hit 50,000 then keep writing.
----------"If we can hit this bullseye, all the dominos will fall like a house of cards...checkmate!"
-Zap Brannigan
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Oct 31, 2007 - 09 29
Bingo is a game of many people; chess implies a victory over an opponent.
50,000 words may be a hard for something like a werewolf novel but then again only romance novels regularly come in at around that so it’s a bourdon everybody struggles with. I imagine I will hit 50,000 then keep writing.
----------"If we can hit this bullseye, all the dominos will fall like a house of cards...checkmate!"
-Zap Brannigan
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Oct 31, 2007 - 20 13
I am not writing a werewolf novel, and so i guess i can't unite with any of you, but i do wish you all the best of luck. I love a good werewolf story. I also picked my topic by random or i would be doing a werewolf story. I was just reading through these posts when i noticed that Mr. Bassil was so pleased with his last statement that he repeated it three times. I enjoyed reading it each time, and I wanted to thank him for going to the trouble of posting it three times.
----------Bingo, chess, as long as we're not playing f***ing Risk I'm game.
My life has become a sullen blur of faces and places. The same people asking the same questions. I answer with the usual lies.
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Oct 31, 2007 - 20 14
I am not writing a werewolf novel, and so i guess i can't unite with any of you, but i do wish you all the best of luck. I love a good werewolf story. I also picked my topic by random or i would be doing a werewolf story. I was just reading through these posts when i noticed that Mr. Bassil was so pleased with his last statement that he repeated it three times. I enjoyed reading it each time, and I wanted to thank him for going to the trouble of posting it three times.
----------Bingo, chess, as long as we're not playing f***ing Risk I'm game.
My life has become a sullen blur of faces and places. The same people asking the same questions. I answer with the usual lies.
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Oct 31, 2007 - 20 14
I am not writing a werewolf novel, and so i guess i can't unite with any of you, but i do wish you all the best of luck. I love a good werewolf story. I also picked my topic by random or i would be doing a werewolf story. I was just reading through these posts when i noticed that Mr. Bassil was so pleased with his last statement that he repeated it three times. I enjoyed reading it each time, and I wanted to thank him for going to the trouble of posting it three times.
----------Bingo, chess, as long as we're not playing f***ing Risk I'm game.
My life has become a sullen blur of faces and places. The same people asking the same questions. I answer with the usual lies.
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Oct 31, 2007 - 22 29
Aaaah! If I weren't writing a sci-fi story, I would be writing a werewolf novel. I'm not a fan of some of the pop-fiction werewolves, though — the ones that are all cutesy and anthropomorphic, who can transform any old time they want to without any emotional or psychological damage whatsoever. Another idea I don't really like is the fact that the term 'were' can be attached to any kind of animal and víola: shapeshifter á la mode. The prefix 'were' means so much more to me. It means drama, and pain, and internal torture; a terrible curse that only death can end. Werefoxes, weresharks and wereanythings just don't cut it for me! But, y'know, that's just me. No hard feelings whatsoever to anyone who decides to pursue that path! Three cheers for you, and good luck! May your fingers never grow stiff from WriMo-ing.
Personally, I like the werewolf model set up by the 1941 film The Wolf Man, with Lon Chaney Jr. and Bela Lugosi! That film popularized a lot of the beliefs associated with werewolves, like their vulnerability to silver and so on. Has anyone here ever seen that version? Larry (the Wolf Man) makes me want to erupt into tears every time. I mean, the costumes and special effects are nothing compared to modern computer graphics, but I have so much sympathy towards the character himself that I almost forget the film's in black and white!
This is kind of off-topic… In any case, another old horror movie I like is the 1930's version of The Mummy. Being completely illogical, it's worth several good laughs. The first mummy movie is bad in a wonderful sort of way — that's the one where one of the mummy's arms is strapped to it's chest with 1930's-style 'ancient mummy fabric,' otherwise known as paper machéd gauze, and it shuffles over to people, threatening them with one stiff, bandaged, stubby mummy-arm, somehow managing to strangle beautiful young women despite the fact that a) it moves at about 1 mile per hour and b) it doesn't have any fingers. If I were in the places of said damsels in distress, I'd have walked away hours ago from the sheer boredom of standing in a doorway with my arms in the air, screaming myself hoarse, while the mummy snails itself over to me for unexplained strangling duties. Or better yet, I'd have taken a match to the little guy. I bet dried mummy guaze is highly flammable! But I love that movie all the same, though if you ask me, it's far outranked by The Wolf Man.
----------Waxen wings of pearly white
Bear the gift of wearer's flight
But Icarus, he flew to high
He touched the sun and fell out of the sky.
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Nov 1, 2007 - 22 53
Oh, I'm doing a werewolf story too. Well, I think I am, she may just be completely batshit insane.
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Nov 2, 2007 - 00 09
I agree with you entirely. I love that one. In fact, my MC, the werewolf, is named Leo Wagner. His last name came from the director of the Wolf Man, George Waggner.
I'm really trying to keep up that 40s feel in my novel, except that it's set in 2007. But the way the monsters work and everything, I'd like to remain as true to the old classics as I can.
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Nov 2, 2007 - 10 48
Another new werewolf writer here this year. I'm trying to write it more as the werewolves are actually just another spieces that evolved along with man but have to hide among mankind. (Kind of like in the TV series 'Prey'.) Usually as outlaws and criminals.
Now if I can keep the murdered human wife from completely taking over the story. She's just suppossed to just be in flashbacks as part of why my werewolf MC is doing what he's doing but she's not content to sit in the background while I put her husband through hell.
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Nov 2, 2007 - 19 43
My MC is a repressed prostitute with social disorder who gets bitten at work by an overenthusiastic customer and then finds herself changing and having frequent blackouts. It is a bit of a Freudian horror with Id verses Ego. The animal verses the conscious. I don't know who is going to win yet but I do know a lot of people are going to die.