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Hello, my name’s Adrelle and I’ve always wanted to write the “right way”–honoring God and letting readers connect certain themes in my writings to Him. But, well, I gotta be honest, I’m writing a “werewolf” story, which does not and will not portray sex, premarital sex or crude language. I’m rather embarrassed, I know you’ve already had initial thoughts on this type of genre, but I guess your opinions, having the same faith, would be quite helpful.

It’s that sort of story that kind of pokes my conscience. The reasons why I am writing one are:

1. Get an audience on Wattpad (the werewolf genre is also quite popular there). So after the book (but I don’t if it’s going to gain many reads, but it’s a better chance than writing in other genres), I could publish in other genres;
2. I actually like the concept of mating for life;
3. practice my writing skills, like doing this as a practice novel.
4. (The story has been itching me for years and I really wanna write it, haha)

And I feel guilty of:

1. My characters not believing in God (I know not all characters have to, but somehow, I feel like it’s me who’s doing it) but in a “moon goddess”, which I may have to mention in their dialogues (Ex. “Oh, thank, the moon goddess.”)
2. There are dark elements in it, like writing about: werewolves, vampires, and other mythological creatures–that are portrayed as “good”, and some evil. Is it okay? I mean, dark eleves and dragons couldn’t only the bad guys.
3. Sometimes I want to put in Bible references, haha, like a time when my character wants to throw a rock and hesitates because “now’s not the time to be all David and Goliath”–and I deleted it. Since they’re the kind of characters who shouldn’t even believe about it.

My story would, however, focus mainly on the mystery, a bit of comedy, and character interactions, and of course, a dash of romance.

So, am I doing it right?