A Brief History of a Story: The Gift

I was wondering if anyone was interested in how I write from start to finish, because since I only thought of this story five days ago, so everything is fresh on my mind. (If not, or if you want to read the story first, skip to the last cut.)

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A few weeks ago( Inspiration )

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( Summary )

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Once I got to the end, I realized that only the first half was summarized and if I put a little effort in I could make it as much of a story as the end. And I had a few hours, so:

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( First Draft )

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I finished this up and went to bed, but the more I thought about it, the younger Balendin seemed. I didn’t want him to be six or eight or ten. He needed to be fourteen or fifteen. Not an adult. Not mature. Not ready to join his wolf in bed for more than sleep. I needed to age him up. And make him less passive.

( Changes )

And then I added stuff and took stuff away and looked over a chart from a different page of a site that Charis sent me a link to. And then, long before I would normally give a story up, this feels done. (I also have ideas for more stories with these characters and the ones only mentioned.)

And I changed the title as I was writing it below. I like this name better.

Title: The Gift
Status: Complete
Genre: supernatural, family
Rating: PG
Length: 1.4k
Summary: Balendin’s family must begift one of their own to the wolfmen in exchange for food to last the winter.


( Someone has to go )