Becoming a Better Writer

"Exploiting werewolf law in a life or death situation against opponents with everything to gain." He chuckled and offered his hand, "I'm in."

A website showcasing the work of an amateur New Zealand writer, attempting to learn by doing.

There are two Novels on the website at the moment; serialising daily, plus a Twitterbook also serialising daily.

• The Wolf's Will: A newspaper editor attempts to exploit werewolf law for profit; he knows what he's letting himself in for, his travelling companions really don't.
• Demonic Symphony: Two underprepared Demon Hunters find themselves way in over their heads; many ugly cars are wrecked.
• The ongoing adventures of Ulysses Perhero: A casual Twitterbook about a Heroic Sociopath

It's possible to see the quality of the writing improve not only between books but actually within the books themselves.

Read it here.

Tropes used in Becoming a Better Writer include:

• Against My Religion - A man tries to avoid giving Ulysses information this way; it doesn't go well
• Demon Slaying, Must be the entire point of Demonic Symphony
• Enthusiasm Versus Stoicism - It definitely wouldn?t stretch credibility to see this as the relationship between Greg and Tony Tony. Look at the start of this scene to see what I mean.
• Emotions vs. Stoicism - Word of God has it that this was originally meant to be the point of The Wolf's Will; unfortunately they lose their stoic after the first chapter
  • And find a better stoic
• Granola Girl - Christine has touches of this.
• Our Demons Are Different - In Demonic Symphony, the demons are the embodiments of emotional energy projected on the world.
  • In theory, this means that there should be demons for other strong emotions such as love, but this isn't really touched on during the book.
• NaNoWriMo - The Wolf's Will was written as part of this
• Significant Anagram - Mr. Ian Woon is an anagram of NaNoWriMo, this also counts as a Shout-Out
• Somebody Else's Problem - The attitude of the general population towards demons in Demonic Symphony, and oh boy does it backfire
• Sky Surfing - Used in The Wolf's Will for the Wind Surfers
• Stephen Ulysses Perhero - Naturally, Ulysses Perhero.
• The Stoic - Greg has his moments of stoicism, but he has absolutely nothing on Free Flower, or on Beatrice from Demonic Symphony.
  • Word of God has it that the last two are actually incapable of feeling emotion
• The Stoner - Mr. Ian Woon again; a flying surfboard riding hippy.
• Taught By Experience - Given as a reason for Derek?s continued survival