Dark Rose Edition Issue 2

Werewolf Love

Werewolf Love

Is there too much werewolf romance on Wattpad? Is it just now becoming an overload of fan fiction? Are we struggling to find our own romantic ideas for a werewolf novel?

Let me help you guys out by simply giving my honest opinion, backed up with some pretty insane Wattpad facts.

For example, there are 14,108 members of the Werewolf club, compared with only 13,988 in the genre's arch rival, Vampire fiction. How many of those do we think have an element of romance in?

Now I don't have a problem with werewolf love stories but it just comes to be the same story over and over again. There are great original ideas out there but, if they haven't already, they'll probably be used time and time again in the future. And, I can promise, it will get boring.

My solution? Don't write a romance. If it accidentally becomes a romance half way through, it doesn't matter! I know I've done that countless times before. If I tell myself that I'm not going to deliberately write a romance novel, I will always get a new idea out of it.

My second solution? Write from the werewolf's point of view! Don't have the innocent girl stumbling across a werewolf and end up falling for him; write it from the beast's view! All authors view werewolves differently; make the wolf compassionate, make the wolf evil but turns good after he or she falls in love, et cetera et cetera. Speaking of which, there are FAR less werewolf stories where the female is the creature as appose to the male.

So my answer is yes, I do think it's becoming fan fiction now. No, I don't think it's boring. Yet. But it gets boring when people steal each others' ideas. If you take an idea and make it your own- fine. But don't just translate someone else's book. Because that's boring and your novel won't do well because it's been done before!

But I don't want to limit these lovely writers on hear so I'm here to help you, not crush your writing dreams.

There are more ways to make your story original but let me just quickly summarise a couple of possible brain storming roots:

-Don't intentionally write a werewolf romance (as explained in detail above)

-Write from the werewolf's point of view (as explained in detail above)

-Make your werewolf female

-Write from the werewolf's point of view but you only discover your narrator is a werewolf half way through the novel

-Mix genres! I've never found a werewolf-sci-fi crossover, and I'm still pining for a historical-fiction-werewolf love story

Have fun and be original, because that's what writing's all about.

Good luck, werewolf romance lovers!

- @Musicwritingandme