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I am writing a book, a book which at the moment I am very proud of. Every time I tell someone I get asked 'What is it called?' I have no idea.
I will give you an outline of the story so far: A girl named Dandy (excuse the silly name) wakes up one night to find that someone has set her house on fire she passes out and when she wakes up she is surrounded by rodents, rats mice ect. they can talk. She wonders why, she sees her reflection in a pond and sees that she has magically turned into a wolf. She follows a rat called George (a character based on an old friend of mine) and comes into a chamber where an ancient rat tells here everything and that she is a gifted creature known as a two soul or shape shifter, he explains that it runs in her family and that her house was set on fire by a henchman of an evil dragon who wants revenge on all shape shifters. She has to get under cover and turns into a wolf to join a pack. Her new friend George, who is also a shape shifter turns into a wolf too. They join a pack of wolves led by a giant wolf who I for some reason named Fangfull.
That is a basic outline of the story so far and I left loads of the description out but has anyone got any ideas on names?
Whew what a mouthful!
For being 11--I think it's GREAT. And your idea is a good one!
If you really want an honest opinion--I'd say write the book first, and then write some more, and keep writing, let it grow to be 1000 pages, and then get a good editor. You'll lose parts of your work in the process, but that's part of writing.
When people ask you for a title, I'd tell them that the right one hasn't occurred to you yet--you're more concerned about the story than its title
Just whatever you do, keep writing and writing. Then keep editing and editing. Learn the rules of grammar. Keep perfecting your craft. It's good so far, and after a while it will be even better.
I have edited my story some more and here is a basic outline of what has happened after they join Fangfulls pack: Fangfull tells them that he needs a lead female in his pack because their lead female was killed by a bear, he asks Dandy if she would temporarily fill the post and she says yes.
That is as far as I have got so far, if you think it was a bad idea to suddenly promote Dandy to the lead female in a pack of wolves then when it gets published read it and find out how this is going to work and why I did it. If you know what I mean.
Thanks. I am working on it. I wrote the story because I wish that was happening to me. Most of the characters are someone I know built up on so that they are unrecognisable. I moved house recently and I am basing the characters on people I knew from where we used to live.
one thing that might help is to write down everything about the character and world
since you are creating characters they will have their own personalities, beliefs, interests, and past
write down everything you can think of for every character that way when you are writing the story you can better show their character by refering to your notes on that character
same with creating the world
each town or village will have its own traditions and way of life
if you actually create the world you will be better at explaining it and making it seem more realistic
it also helps run smoothly
i dont know if this helps or not but its what i do when i write storys
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