White-River

Well I believe you have a good imagination and maybe a pretty good idea here. Unfortunately the amount of grammatical errors, fragmented thoughts and misused words make following your story difficult at best. Then I noticed that you seem to waver on whether you're writing about realistic canines or total fantasy ones. The story appears to start out more or less realistically or at least that was the first impression but by the last chapter your animals are not only talking among themselves but apparently can be understood by humans as well.

However try not to get discouraged by this. The best way to become a writer is to keep writing. Writing is both a journey and a learning experience. Perhaps the best thing to do is to read a couple of good books on writing itself to get a better idea of how to better put your thoughts together in the writing word.

I'd like to recommend a couple of books that I personally found very helpful.
1. “You Can Write a Mystery” by Gillian Roberts. Never mind the fact that this is geared towards mystery writing since in many ways all genres require the same knowledge of the mechanics of the craft. Of all the 'How To' books I've read on the subject I've found this one to be one of the most concise and helpful.
2. “Worlds of Wonder” by David Gerrold. This is a book for Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors but again what it has to offer will benefit whatever type of story you want to write.
3. Strunk & White, The Elements of Style. Is a book that should be on every author's reference shelf. It's a small book that provides a quick look up for most of the most common grammatical rules and styles in the English language.

Now as for your wolves. You need to decide or perhaps I should say you need to convince your readers just what level of reality your characters exist in. If they're supposed to be primarily realistic, then you have to keep to that reality throughout your story. If they're more on the fantasy side then you're more free to play with how they act, but it's a really good idea to establish this near the beginning of the story and then stick to it.

Okay, perhaps I''ve rambled on enough for one post. I hope I've been able to help a bit.

Keep writing

-JT

Posted 8 Years Ago

Well I believe you have a good imagination and maybe a pretty good idea here. Unfortunately the amount of grammatical errors, fragmented thoughts and misused words make following your story difficult at best. Then I noticed that you seem to waver on whether you're writing about realistic canines or total fantasy ones. The story appears to start out more or less realistically or at least that was the first impression but by the last chapter your animals are not only talking among themselves but apparently can be understood by humans as well.

However try not to get discouraged by this. The best way to become a writer is to keep writing. Writing is both a journey and a learning experience. Perhaps the best thing to do is to read a couple of good books on writing itself to get a better idea of how to better put your thoughts together in the writing word.

I'd like to recommend a couple of books that I personally found very helpful.
1. “You Can Write a Mystery” by Gillian Roberts. Never mind the fact that this is geared towards mystery writing since in many ways all genres require the same knowledge of the mechanics of the craft. Of all the 'How To' books I've read on the subject I've found this one to be one of the most concise and helpful.
2. “Worlds of Wonder” by David Gerrold. This is a book for Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors but again what it has to offer will benefit whatever type of story you want to write.
3. Strunk & White, The Elements of Style. Is a book that should be on every author's reference shelf. It's a small book that provides a quick look up for most of the most common grammatical rules and styles in the English language.

Now as for your wolves. You need to decide or perhaps I should say you need to convince your readers just what level of reality your characters exist in. If they're supposed to be primarily realistic, then you have to keep to that reality throughout your story. If they're more on the fantasy side then you're more free to play with how they act, but it's a really good idea to establish this near the beginning of the story and then stick to it.

Okay, perhaps I''ve rambled on enough for one post. I hope I've been able to help a bit.

Keep writing

-JT

Posted 8 Years Ago