What to avoid in werewolf stories?

#1

If I were hypothetically writing a werewolf story, what topics do I need to avoid to write a fresh and unique story?

#2

Love triangles, I feel like a lot of Werewolf stories have these in and theyā€™re kind of boring and offer no new perspective or any original ideas. Idk, thatā€™s just my opinion :grin:

#3

Interesting :thinking: thereā€™s no multiple love interests in this story, itā€™s kinda like teen wolf

#4

Ah I LOVE Teen Wolf! Let me know when you publish it :slightly_smiling_face:

#5

Love triangles was literally the first thing that came into my head :joy:

#6

:joy::joy: I feel like in the majority of stories theyā€™re used simply to entertain readers, not to portray a message or help the MC. I hate love triangles. I hate having to spend time with characters Iā€™m not interested in and Iā€™m always waiting for my MC to spend time with the other love interest. Unfortunately I always seem to like the guys that you donā€™t spend as much time with so I donā€™t end up finishing the story.

#7

Same :joy: When love triangles are just an extra to a story not in the romance genre but ends up becoming the whole plot line :expressionless: I usually like the good guy (in badboy stories/ in this case probably not the rebel werewolf etc) and the MC usually never ends up with him anyway.

#8

Yep, Iā€™m a sucker for a gentleman but the bad boy always gets priority :roll_eyes:

#9

I kinda hate it when the boy says ā€œmineā€ and the MC is like ā€œoh my gosh I was waiting for you my whole life come give me a kissā€ or ā€œOh no I donā€™t want him, he canā€™t be my mate, I canā€™t have a mateā€ when in reality it would be like ā€œhmmm back off I am not an object for you to claimā€ or MC slaps guy so hard he forgets his one name

#10

These are all my personal opinions, butā€¦

To me, most werewolf stories on this app are all the same. It starts with some girl in a bad situation (probably being abused by some alpha), and then she escapes. Then sheā€™s found by some other alpha of another pack and they fall in love, blah blah.
Another common kind is the ā€˜rougeā€™ wolf girl whoā€™s suddenly infringing on another packā€™s territory, or something. She meets the hot, alpha male and loses all dignity and self-respect for this guy who thinks of her as an object.

Personally, things I would avoid in a story of my own:
ā€˜Inner wolves.ā€™
Abusive ā€˜alphaā€™ males.
A weak, helpless MC.
Mates that are d e s t i n e d to be together because ofā€¦ werewolf biology or something?
And probably more, but Iā€™m not quite sure at the moment.

Something that also would be super cool to see is a werewolf pack based on actual wolf pack dynamics. The pack structure we know today (with alphas) is completely wrong - it was based off of wolves in captivity, and not actual wild wolves.
I understand that would probably make werewolf stories a little more difficult, but, still, it would be neat to see.

#11

Twilight.

#12