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I am working on a book called 'Heart of a Wolf.' It is not complete yet (actually I only have a few chapters written), but I'd like to try and get it out there now while its still in progress. Please leave comments and suggestions here because you never know when I suggestion will spark an idea and end up in the book.

I will try to post every week, but it might turn into a monthly post or an as-often-as-I-can one. So I appologize for any wait beforehand.

Basic Summery

Haley's life has not been on to be proud of. She lives in the harsh world of werewolves, but all she really longs for is humanity. Being the future alpha female of her pack doesn't help her situation at all, and she is now being forced to be mates with her best friend James, the alpha's son. Haley feels a firey hatred toward the seemingly all powerful Tom and tries to loose herself in her morning runs. But oneday, two boys change her whole life. Kevin is full of stories about supposedly 'mystical' creatures from all the crazy adventurous his mother drags him on. Then there's Jake, seeming perfect in every way imaginable. But he is only human and therefore off limits to girls like Haley. Rebellion rises in Haley everyday and she begins to ignore all of Tom's set rules. Though her days are full of joy with her new found fridnships and love, will she have to pay for all her happiness with Jake's blood?





I was asleep in my bed upstairs when there was so much commotion coming from downstairs that I couldn’t help but wake. I ran to Clair’s bed. She had become my older sister as the years grew on. She must have heard the noise too, because she was sitting up in bed, hands wrapped around her knees, and staring off into the distance. “Clair?” I asked hesitantly.

“Shhh,” she hushed me. “I’m listening.” Clair had much better hearing than any of us. I shouldn’t have been surprised to find out she was, once again, listening into someone else’s conversation.

D.J. and James soon joined us. We were all sitting on Clair’s bed, gathering around her. After a few minutes she said, “I can’t hear that well from all the way up hear. But something happened. Something big. It has all the adults worried.” She became quiet as she continued to listen.

“Think if we went on the steps, you could hear better?” D.J. suggested.

Clair looked at him with a cocked eyebrow. “You may have to travel to the stairs. I can here from top.” With that, Clair jumped out of the bed and hurried, quietly as to not wake Kat, and only stopped once she was a few feet from the top of the stairs. The rest of us gathered right outside the door of the room. We needed to give Clair her space so she her hearing would be distracted by our own noises. She closed her eyes in concentration.

It didn’t take long for Clair to catch enough of the conversation to find out what happened. Her eyes opened wide in shock, tears threatening to slide down her check. One clear, watery tear slide down her face as she turned toward us, her eyes looking straight at James.

“Clair?” We all turned toward the voice as our human baby-sitter, and Clair’s mother, walked toward us. “Pups? What are you doing out of bed?” D.J., James, and I looked down, but Kat looked at Clair. She hurried forward to hug her daughter.

“What’s wrong, baby?” Kat asked as she held Clair in her arms. I looked toward the mother and daughter, straining to hear the news myself. I could feel the boys grow still beside me, for the same reason I expect.

But nothing would have prepared us for what the young pup said.

“Mom… Kayla’s been killed.”

Sorry. I didn't know.

That is actually quite well written. Some of your sentences are a bit long, so I recommend using commas if needed. Otherwise, that was really good!

JerseuCaptain - Thanks. I just figured that because it wasn't a fanfiction it would be in books. My mistake. So, thanks for reprting it, I guess. I want this in the right section.

Canis Lupus - Thank you. And, this is like a rough copy, so it's not exactly perfect.

Well, its been a week, and I'm going to try to make this as weekly as possible. So, here's the next part of Heart of a Wolf:

First Encounter

Chapter One

That day remains in my head still today. Days of such sadness are hard to forget, and that was one of the worst. It was the day our alpha female was killed.

We didn’t know who did it, but it had to be one of us. In the end, we figured it had to have been a rogue, just like with Danielle’s rape. It isn’t often you find someone like us running alone, but everyone encounters a stray at least once in their lifetime.

But whether it really was a loner, or one of us, it didn’t really matter. Ten years later, a girl around eighteen turned up dead in the middle of the woods, our woods. Again the questions of an out-of-control stray popped up, but we couldn’t tell the police that. The cops started sniffing around the house, threatened us with search warrants more than once, and in the end, we had no choice.

Tom, our leader, gathered the pack outside, and all of us watched him take the small box out of his pocket. We flinched when he lit the match. He threw it into an open window and waited for the flames to begin consuming the house before calling the run.

I tried to forget that day; I loved our home in Wyoming too much to just let it go like that. Yet, I remembered it like it happened yesterday. The sparks blew in the wind. The house was giving off so much heat that I was sweating under my fur. We run as hard as we could, unable to stand being so close to one of our greatest and strongest enemies: fire. Tom and his son, James, led the way from our old and, perhaps, best home forever. I didn’t know where they were leading the pack, and I doubted they knew either, and to this day, I still haven’t a clue.

We had only been in out new home a few short days before my routine morning jog kicked in again. And my first day was more interesting than expected.

I was walking down the stairs of our four-story house after dressing myself in my usual wear, shorts and a ratty t-shirt, underneath the dark green cloak D.J. gave me after my first night as wolf. I went as quietly as I could out the door of my room, the only room on the top floor, and past the third floor. A door stood in the middle of the stairway, though there was no landing or anything else to indicate an entryway. I had to be extra careful going past here. James had made sure he was nearest to me. He was my protector in a way, though Tom had recently spoken the idea that he and I would lead the pack together, and that called for the two of use to become mates. Yeah, right. I refused to be anything but a good friend with James.

Is this a fiction based off another public media (i.e books, videos, games, etc.)? If so, it has to be moved to the Fanfic boards. Otherwise, it's actually not much of a problem (not even a rule) that members post original stories here too - though I'll discuss it with the other moderators before making a decision.

Sorry, if I can just say (This is a matter of opinion).

If it is going to be published or has already been published offically than it's a book, if not, it's a fan fic.

(Don't flaim at me for this post, I am only really just trying to help)

No, It's not based on anything published. I'm just trying to get my book out there while it's still being written.



It might be published one day... Just saying.

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By definition:

Fan fiction (alternately referred to as fanfiction, fanfic, FF or fic) is a broadly defined term for fiction about characters or settings written by admirers of the original work, rather than by the original creators. The term usually applies to works that are not commissioned and unauthorized by the owner/creators and publishers of the original and usually (but not always) works which are not professionally published. Fan fiction is defined outside of original fiction, which exists within its own discrete, professionally published universe, and therefore, as long as it's related to the subject, can be completely outside of canon works within that universe. Most fan fiction writers assume that their readers have knowledge of the canon universe (created by a professional writer) in which their works are based.
[...] Before about 1965, the term "fan fiction" was used in science fiction fandom to designate original, though amateur, works of science fiction published in science fiction fanzines, as differentiated from fiction that was professionally published by professional writers, but this usage is now obsolete. Modern definitions of the term exclude such entirely original writing from the category. Today, "fan fiction" writers are those who use characters and situations already created by other writers in order to develop their personal and preferred views of the story. For example, the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling has spawned an extensive fan fiction subgenre, in which the characters make choices and enjoy an afterlife that Rowling herself did not create, or deviate from the plotline of the actual books at a certain point, allowing a different route to be traveled.
[...]
Due to the modern definition of fan fiction as derivative works, there are many legal issues involved with fan fiction, most prominently (but not exclusively) arising under United States copyright law.

Technically, Fanfiction is illegal because it is a derivative work, and therefore, a copyright violation. However, several prominent authors have given their blessings to fanfiction, notably J.K. Rowling. Rowling said she was "flattered" that people wanted to write their own stories based on her characters.[24] However, Anne Rice has consistently and aggressively prevented fan fiction based on any of her characters (mostly those from her famous Interview with the Vampire and its sequels in The Vampire Chronicles) or other elements in her books, and she formally requested that FanFiction.Net remove stories featuring her characters.

Major sites such as fanfiction.net claim fair use since Section 107 of the Copyright Act allows for fair use claims of copyrighted material. According to their interpretation of the law, fanfiction may legally fall under "fair use" because it is the "productive addition of creative labor" to copyrighted materials. Additionally, it does not act as a substitute to the original copyrighted work, because the author does not profit from fanfiction. This interpretation is not supported by traditional interpretations of the relevant statutes.

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A book is:

A novel (from, Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new", "news", or "short story of something new") is today a long written, fictional, prose narrative. The seventeenth-century genre conflict between long romances and short novels, novellas, has brought definitions of both traditions into the modern usage of the term. [...]
Narrative fiction (narrative prose) generally favours prose for the writing of novels, short stories, graphic novels, and the like. Singular examples of these exist throughout history, but they did not develop into systematic and discrete literary forms until relatively recent centuries. Length often serves to categorize works of prose fiction. Although limits remain somewhat arbitrary, modern publishing conventions dictate the following:

* A Mini Saga is a short story of exactly 50 words
* A Flash fiction is generally defined as a piece of prose under a thousand words.
* A short story comprises prose writing of between 1000 and 20,000 words (but typically more than 500 words), which may or may not have a narrative arc.
* A story containing between 20,000 and 50,000 words falls into the novella category.
* A work of fiction containing more than 50,000 words falls squarely into the realm of the novel.

A novel consists simply of a long story written in prose, yet the form developed comparatively recently. Icelandic prose sagas dating from about the 11th century bridge the gap between traditional national verse epics and the modern psychological novel. In mainland Europe, the Spaniard Cervantes wrote perhaps the first influential novel: Don Quixote, the first part of which was published in 1605 and the second in 1615. Earlier collections of tales, such as Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, have comparable forms and would classify as novels if written today. Earlier works written in Asia resemble even more strongly the novel as we now think of it — for example, works such as the Chinese Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Japanese Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki. Compare to The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.

Early novels in Europe did not, at the time, count as significant literature, perhaps because "mere" prose writing seemed easy and unimportant. It has become clear, however, that prose writing can provide aesthetic pleasure without adhering to poetic forms. Additionally, the freedom authors gain in not having to concern themselves with verse structure translates often into a more complex plot or into one richer in precise detail than one typically finds even in narrative poetry. This freedom also allows an author to experiment with many different literary and presentation styles — including poetry— in the scope of a single novel.

See Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel.


. The difference between a Fanfiction and a Fiction is vast. And since there are no sections here for original fictions, this allows members to post their original stories here (we mods have no problems with it), though it would be preferred to keep it in the Others section.

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(warning: links provided may expire over time).

Even though it is a matter of opinion, I do believe this decision is final until (if ever) we get a board for original stories.

Basicly what I said but just with a few extra details and a whole lot more writing?

Everything summarized, it basically means: A book is an original story. Fanfiction is not. Thus, user's original stories are allowed in the Books section until otherwise stated.

Anyway, I digress... we should leave this topic so it won't get spammed.

Agreed, exactly what I said. But if this is a book/novel written by the OP in my view, it's a fiction, mabe not "fan" fiction, but unless she/he has plans to publish, it belongs in the Fan fiction section in my point of view.



Agreed again.

I;m sorry that I didn't post last night. I was very busy. But here is the next part of HoaW for all of you who happen to be reading it.

As soon as I made it to the landing, I made a mental sigh of relief. I watched the door that was at the end of the landing. Clair, my adopted older sister, tended to be a light sleeper and easily awakened. I made sure to all but stop breathing as I put my ear to the door. I could hear her deep breathing. She was asleep. That was good.

I didn’t need to put my head to the door of the next room, mostly because there was no door. Instead there was a metal sheet covering the large hole in the wall that my cousin had made. D.J. was the oldest of the yearlings and also the strongest. His room was just a small, cluttered space, barely larger than a walk-in closet, that he had made himself. The feeble wood that most of the walls were made of were no challenge for any of us to knock down with one blow. Only D.J. would have made an entire room in the inside of the wall.

I walked with confidence down the next flight of stairs, D.J.’s snores echoing in my ears. I didn’t even glance at the three doors on the third level. I knew that Sandra and Andrew, my mother and father; Danielle, D.J.’s mother and Sandra’s sister; and Daniel, Clair’s father, would care that I was out again for one of my morning runs. No one understood how I could wake up early in the morning and run while the rest of the pack was still sleeping off last night’s hunt. I didn’t know why, but I never was able to sleep in, even as a pup. Perhaps my wolf self made sure I was well rested by the morning.

I walked down the last step, walking into the living room. I looked around the room for any sign that someone had fallen asleep down here on the couch after last night. It was quiet, so I moved out of that room and into the dinning room. I watched the basement door as I passed by it, making sure Tom didn’t walk up here and surprise me. I made it to the kitchen and out the front door quickly. I knew as soon as I made it past Tom’s door that I was safe.

The morning air was chilly, though it didn’t affect me much. I guess that it would have seemed like a cold morning to a human. The canine part of me kept me warm in the coldest temperatures, even without my cloak. My bare-feet trudged through the gravel, but I didn’t worry about noise. My pack and most of the humans were asleep anyway. Or so I thought.

A voice caught in my ear, and I turned toward its source: a boarded window. I looked down the alley, both ways, before deciding to inspect. I ran at the wall and jumped as high as I could. I grabbed the vines that had grown on the houses over the years and climbed up the wall. If the wood hadn’t been blocking the window, I would have been able to interpret what the voice was saying without the hassle of getting so close to it. I had to almost be right below it before I could finally understand.

“… My mom’s just really into all those old legends and junk,” said a male voice. There was a small thump like something heavy had been dropped on the floor, probably a box. A family must have finally decided to move into the cursed apartments.

“What story does this place have?” another male voice asked.

“It’s ridiculous,” the first voice answered. “You don’t want to here this one.”

“Come one, Kevin,” the second boy whined. “You’ve told me so many stupid legends that I’m used to it now.”