The Original Ideas

Everyone has an original idea, from which a story comes. It could come around at a random time when your mind is blank or it could come from dreams or even come from the inspiration of adventures with friends or families. Everyone has their own way to come up with ideas and it takes time for a perfect idea to come around. Most of the time these ideas are written down, whether in notebooks or on a computer. It just depends on the person and how they best work with writing.

So by now you may be wondering how my ideas came along. Every story idea I've had up to now has come from dreams. Normally the dream's idea is only a small part of the whole story. I might as well point out that the only dreams I remember are sort of scary or could be but I morph them, when in stories, into a sad part with a happy ending. Yeah I wish I could have happy dreams since I've had enough of spiders or giant bugs and random kidnappings (where I am the observer, and seem to be hovering there) with a few vampires but then dreams really do not like me obviously. The bugs and spiders will never come part of any story I create especially seeing how much I hate and fear them.

Onto my werewolf and Mut story, as I've recently been calling it. The original idea came from a really weird kidnapping dream. It became really weird when I actually thought about it later and really did not fit with my ideas after I began writing. So the dream was the main character being kidnapped via a taxi, driven somewhere out of the town, thrown in a dark cell with vampires, and eventually being rescued. When I had finally gotten to writing the scene there was a major problem... The setting is a small town where one could easily walk around and thus no needs for taxi's. *Cue the death march* Well my solution was the only one I could come up with. I had the made the werewolf pack into a group of outcasts, to say the least. It turned into a sort of rival fight with the main character getting in the way.

Below is the excerpt of that portion. It is really choppy though from lack of editing. There is some background to keep it from being too confusing. As a note, apostrophes mean talking telepathically...

“Are you beating up my second in command, Kat?” I heard Shane ask from behind me.

“You are the one who wanted them to keep an eye on me,” I replied turning to face him. I went back to twirling the staff. “Finally done?”

“Almost. There is still a few things but that’s all.”

I dropped to the ground as I heard the air moving as Tomas swung at my side. I switched into a panther and attacked. I caught him in the leg before he hit me aside with the staff and werewolf strength. I got to fly.

I landed unsteadily on my feet and dropped onto my stomach immediately. I knew I had some bruised and cracked ribs. It was a bit hard to breathe and I realized my clothes were in rags.

I stood and realized something was wrong with one of my front legs, since it was painful to put any pressure on the leg.