How Not To Fuck Up a Werewolf Story

IMMA PUT THE WOLF IN WEREWOLF

Did you miss me?  I have a feeling that this meeting is long overdue, but I'm currently sitting in my mushroom chair in front of my AC, listening to songs that make me curl my toes and my fingers twitch with the ache of writing.  

So, here I am, laying it all out, in front of y'all, for you to greedily consume. 

I haven't posted anything on this advice book  for a good year-- maybe, I don't remember the months that well, but it seems like a year. I've changed a lot. Skin is undergoing SERIOUS editing, God bless, and I've began/deleted/restarted around forty books with werewolf themes, most of which that haven't seen the likes of Wattpad.

I gotta tell you something, and I'm being serious. I know half of the time I probably sound like the most negative person for Werewolf/Wattpad books on here, but that's because I want you guys to learn from my mistakes before they become your own. 

There is something that many books seem to lack on Wattpad, and in the werewolf community, really there isn't any excuse.

P.A.S.S.I.O.N.

Google defines it as strong and barely controllable emotion, and for once, google gets me. 

We are writing about werewolves! There (probably) not real! Half the reason why werewolves are so damn interesting is because, if we are all being honest-- and I AM ALWAYS HONEST WITH Y'ALL-- there is a primal instinct to them. 

Imagine this, liebling: 

Half the reason why we are all so fascinated with them is because they are portrayed as primal beings. In the words of Owen Grady "I gotta eat. I gotta hunt. I gotta...*Hip sways as fist pumps*"

Basically, the werewolf universe is driven by the need to survive, the blood and action, and the SEX. 

Don't tell me it's not. Don't tell me it's pure and beautiful, because the majority of all of it is written to help our inner desires blossom and give us hope. I mean, really, it hits everything right on the nail when one(as in you) is looking for a possible partner in life. You get a person who can feed you? And not only that, but always be capable of making sure you have the resources for food? And, on top of that, amazing sexual prowess? 

We are basically looking for a babysitter with benefits-- unless you're asexual, aye I see u in the back. You guys just want a babysitter, and that's beautiful.

So, I propose this-- what if we paired these three traits with emotion so strong it seemed tangible? 

What if our werewolf buddy felt the thrill of the hunt so deeply that we looked outside of our window and ached to run barefoot until our hands were filled with our own prey? 

On the note of food, of supplying your lifemate with the resources to survive, there is such an opportunity to explore this. Don't tell me there isn't an instinct programmed into their brains that make them desperate to find prey fit for their family? Don't tell me they haven't felt their muscles freeze up as they waited for countless hours in anticipation of their next victim. 

And if you don't want to go the dark, woodsy, I-put-the-wolf-in-werewolf route, let's think about domestic werewolves. Let's talk about werewolf children, who hear about the prospect of having a mate and begin to take canned soup from their kitchen cabinets. Let's talk about eight year-olds stuffing loaves of breads beneath their bed and their parents only rolling their eyes because they had been young once too.