Hello dear readers. Thank you hanging out with me as I have tried to wander my way through a writing life. Some days are more sucessful than others. I was listening to Writing Excuses, Brandon Sanderson’s podcast. Something they said in Season 1 episode 2 was marry a mundane thought with an extrodinary thought. I tossed it around and looked at it as they were talking and I got hit with an idea.
What if a werewolf was bitten by a human on a full moon night?
Mundane thought: werewolf/human interaction.
Extrodinary thought: human bites werewolf
So next question I asked myself is Why?
Why would a human bite a werewolf? How would the human even have a snowball’s chance in Miami if the bite was delivered? How would the human know they were biting a werewolf in the first place?
So the answers I came up with lead to two different stories. One a comedy, “hold my beer and watch this” kinda of accident, with the werewolf becoming human and trying to fit in the human world while trying to get back the werewolf part. And the human becoming a werewolf and having to figure out being wolfy.
The second one is darker. Dying human thinks health and vitality will be restored by stealing a werewolf’s curse. Then sending henchpeople out capture a wolf, susprise they actually grab a were. The night of the full moon, set up a ritual and the dying person steals the were’s curse/power/mojo. Bad guys releases the former werewolf while the bad guy gets healthy and goes on to do bad guy things. And at some point the werewolf would challege bad guy to get their mojo back.
Still in a plotting/thinking stage, however it is more writerly behavor than I have had in months. Both stories appeal to me. I think the second one would have a better chance of making it. While the first one seems to me to be the more unique.
I belong to the NaNo group on fb, and I posed to the idea to them. Biggest response I have ever had to anything. Most thought it was a sound idea as long as I took a humorous approach. Nobody much commented on my second theory on the idea. Some were completely turned off by the whole idea and some were like “Yeah, I’d read that”.
So now the work begins with seeing if I can cook up an outline for one, both or possibly merge the two ideas in one story. One commenter said to set the tone similar to Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman in Good Omens.
So wish me luck as I go off to plot and see if maybe I can get some writing mojo back. Cheers, james
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Really interesting concept! I’ve had a story idea in the back of my head for years about a “half werewolf,” whose mother was bitten and turned while pregnant. Usually, I figure, there would be a miscarriage at some point in the following months as the mother transforms, but this would be the first known case of an actual live birth. If it happens on a full moon the baby would be a wolf, and otherwise human, but unable to change forms in the other direction because the curse has been diluted. Growing up, a human half werewolf would still get, like, that feeling of “I should be a wolf right now” during full moons, but be eternally frustrated and cranky that they can’t.
Oh that is a wicked cool idea.
I like both concepts, though admittedly, I’m more fond of the first. I feel like the child my beer” switch would be hilarious. Not too many humorous stories out there that also involve such a blatantly violent creature. I’ve always been a big fan of turning things on their ears