Comments on: The Wolf Under the Table https://writersinthestormblog.com/2025/04/the-wolf-under-the-table/ A Blog On Writing Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:59:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Lynette M Burrows https://writersinthestormblog.com/2025/04/the-wolf-under-the-table/#comment-170557 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:59:43 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=54493#comment-170557 In reply to denise.

Yes, Denise. You're absolutely right. And Scott agrees (see his reply to Debbie Vilardi above). So the wolf is a surprise idea but not any old random wolf but an intentional wolf. *smile* Thanks for being a faithful WITS reader.

]]> By: denise https://writersinthestormblog.com/2025/04/the-wolf-under-the-table/#comment-170553 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:02:13 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=54493#comment-170553 you can add the wolf, but the wolf has to drive the story forward in order for it to work. the wolf has to serve a purpose.

]]> By: Scott https://writersinthestormblog.com/2025/04/the-wolf-under-the-table/#comment-170551 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 02:42:59 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=54493#comment-170551 In reply to Jenny Hansen.

Damon Suede? 🙂

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2025/04/the-wolf-under-the-table/#comment-170549 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:51:15 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=54493#comment-170549 In reply to Diana Stout.

I'm so jelly that you got to see Dwight Swain in person!

]]> By: Scott https://writersinthestormblog.com/2025/04/the-wolf-under-the-table/#comment-170547 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:13:11 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=54493#comment-170547 In reply to Diana Stout.

LOL... there was a great show about this guy who had the strangest luck, and I remember one episode where he went out in the middle of nowhere to fish where nothing could happen... and a body fell out of the sky.

]]> By: Diana Stout https://writersinthestormblog.com/2025/04/the-wolf-under-the-table/#comment-170546 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:53:50 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=54493#comment-170546 Reminds me of Dwight Swain's workshop I was in decades ago, where he said of a murder mystery, "When things get dull, drop another body from the ceiling."

Great examples!

]]> By: Scott https://writersinthestormblog.com/2025/04/the-wolf-under-the-table/#comment-170545 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:56:59 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=54493#comment-170545 In reply to Matthew.

Oooh was it a wolf cult? 😉 Great idea.

]]> By: Scott https://writersinthestormblog.com/2025/04/the-wolf-under-the-table/#comment-170544 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:56:34 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=54493#comment-170544 In reply to Janet Gershen-Siegel.

Yup, that will do it. 😛

]]> By: Matthew https://writersinthestormblog.com/2025/04/the-wolf-under-the-table/#comment-170542 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:35:52 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=54493#comment-170542 Not exactly a wolf... I had an idea that carried me half way through a novel. After a dramatic scene (characters meet with aliens) they spent a chapter talking about what to do next. I really didn't know where to go next with the story. Unexpectedly (my characters often surprise me) one of my major characters said "Maybe we could start a cult." Just like that, the rest of the story fell into my head!

]]> By: Janet Gershen-Siegel https://writersinthestormblog.com/2025/04/the-wolf-under-the-table/#comment-170541 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:18:31 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=54493#comment-170541 Yay Scott!

And I know just what you mean. This is why a bomb went off in the middle of the dance floor while my future cop characters were chatting with a witness in the back office area.

Let loose the wolves of writing!

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