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  • Eden Anderson replied to the topic Animal POV Fiction? in the forum General Writing Discussions 7 years, 9 months ago

    @duskflower

    Ohhh, I LOVE animals!! And I love books from animals POV!! Most of the Animal Fiction/Fantasy books I have read are middle-grade novels, but I love them just the same. 😉 Some of my favorites are: The Tale of Despereaux, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Cricket in Times Square (best kid’s book ever!!) The Redwall books, The Green Ember, Black Beauty, Charlotte’s Web and of course Winnie-the-Pooh! (I have a slight obsession with Animal kid’s books.😉)

    I have tried my hand at Animal POV fiction different times, but never completed a whole story. I am still holding to the idea of writing a story about a hedgehog someday. 😍

    I think that it is so cool that you are writing a story about wolves!! Wolves are such fascinating and cool animals…I think it’s awesome you are writing about them. GO YOU!

    I haven’t read any books where God/faith/religion were necessarily incorporated into a story’s theme that was about animals…but I like what @ashira said about pointing to the Creator.

    I think if you are writing from the POV of an animal, it’s going to be hard to incorporate God into the story, seeing as animals are neither spiritual or eternal beings. They can do neither right nor wrong, they act on instinct alone. Of course in some Animal POV fiction, the animal is basically act like humans and have souls…and I personally like that type of style to some extent. But to try and incorporate spirituality into the story or the animal’s life, might be stretching it a little bit…🙂

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