How Not To Fuck Up a Werewolf Story

rich kids & vanity

the gif on the side is me writing this entire chapter.

I've decided to continue this for you guys are the best people in the world, and I shall pass my wisdow- haha I like to call it common sense- down to you. By the way, I read every single comment and they were fucking hilarious. I thought I was going crazy and I was the only one who saw how shitty some of the werewolf books were.

Today we are talking about rich kids and mental illnesses, so WARNING to those who have been affected or like to stay away from harmful body issues, I don't want you guys to scrape up bad memories.

begin: Y'know what really annoys me- since you probably said 'no I don't know June,' I shall tell you.

Alphas and werewolf packs that are literally drowning in money.

I understand that yes, it's good to have your characters be financially secure and for them to live in a nice house with nice neighbors. I'm fine with that, hell in my story Skin it has Lennox's wealth, his pack has accumulated money from the government but he isn't drowning in it. He has enough to repair a hole in the roof if he needs to, and if he wants to buy a new pair of shoes that cost a hundred dollars he can probably swing it by.

But it isn't a shove-it-in-your-face kind of rich, if I was to classify it, I'd say high middle-class.

In another book my Alpha Murray works as a detective to get by, he doesn't have money just appearing out of his ass. He lives in an alright apartment in an alright part of town with an alright amount of hours to work for his damn money.

But for some God awful reason- maybe you guys got it from Twilight- every single damn werewolf is freaking rich for no reason.

And do you know how idiotic that sounds? For a werewolf to be rich is pretty hilarious, since the only reason you give us for them being rich is either

a) my dad owns some companies -what kind of companies, why are they so successful?-

or

b) over the course of two hundred years the pack is freaking rich because apparently the past generations were actually smart with their money and saved it up for us to waste it on random shit *laughs at future generation* those lil shits aren't going to have any money at all *breaks a thousand dollar painting and replaces it with a twenty thousand dollar painting while laughing idiotiocally*.

It's not only a big turn off, but it makes it seem like he's gotten everything handed to him- in most cases he has- it's like he's a baby in a big-man suit that throws around his cash for no special reason.

But I really hate rich werewolves- I don't if it's written well and they spend their money on useful stuff- but in most cases the only reason why the Alphas are fucking rich is because after they kidnap their mates they hand them off to their little sister and tell her "Spend anything you want, buy anything you want."

I'm being honest here, have you ever read a werewolf book where she gets kidnapped and he doesn't let her go shopping in some form?

No. You haven't, but if you have somehow missed that- it happens A LOT.

And another fucking pet peeve of mine which needs to be swiped out allll the way out:

When the guy comes to school and he's driving some insert-some-Italian-car-2015-special-edition-randomlettersabc-here. Are you fucking kidding me?

Are. you. fucking. kidding. me?

So know we know that you googled something like 'most expensive car in the world' into the search generator and you picked the most expensive one. Don't say you didn't because when I was young and naive like you, I did it too.