#but slayers allowed that ability to show something you couldn't really predict

[justimajin]

In the Imajining of: A Lone Wolf’s Howl 

If you’ve read my stories before, you know the drill. I break up the story into pieces, talk about what my thought process was like and basically describe what was happening behind the scenes. 

Alright, let’s get it!

The Idea

The Characters

The Plot 

Difficult Parts 

The Overall Series  

The Idea: 

I’ve had the idea for this story for a long time and in fact, it was originally supposed to be only 3 parts long. I was thinking about just making it a mini-series with the same storyline, except the events would happen much quicker and be shorter. In a way this could of worked, but all of the important parts would have been omitted (Y/N being a wolf and her entire backstory) since Y/N would find out Jungkook was a werewolf, hate him and then come back to realize she was wrong. 

This seriously could have worked, but the story itself wouldn’t have been so complex and Y/N’s character would have been an on and off switch (happy in Part 1, mad in Part 2 and then happy again in Part 3 lol). This would have rushed everything so I decided to throw away the idea of a mini-series and went with the full fleshed out story we have now. 

The Characters: 

Y/N: The process of making the main character was a little different for this time around, because I wanted to experiment around and give her a noticeable personality. I originally thought I would make her more scared of her abilities, in the sense that she’s been trained to become a slayer but it’s not something she’s ever wanted to do. She would have been against doing hunts all together and would almost work like a “puppet”, aka doing everything the Elder told her to do and have no real control over her fate. Sounds really bad, but I did end up retaining some of this with how she’s terrified during her first hunt, believing deeply in what she thinks is right but horrified by its outcomes. 

So Y/N ended up being much different, she was a lot more strong-willed and tactful, and instead of being against her people, she was in full support of what they did. I thought this was nice to see in a challenging perspective for her character as well, from her cruel reaction to finding out Jungkook was a werewolf to understanding him and realizing where she went wrong and then eventually mating with him. She grows a lot (I literally sound a proud mom right now lol) and by the end, you’ve seen her come full circle with everything that’s happened. 

Jungkook: Jungkook’s character was interesting to write in this and I think it’s because I’ve never attempted to write someone like him. This is because Jungkook is what I like to call, a “back-seater” character. Basically he’s the lead in the story but this isn’t his story, it’s Y/N’s. So he ends up taking the backseat to many of the situations since Y/N is the one struggling and he doesn’t have the same attachment to his people like she does. He still does have attachment to them, just in a better and healthier way.

Jungkook’s also very similar to Y/N, in different ways. He’s very protective of people he loves and he reacts to everything right away, not really processing things before he does. Namjoon has helped him with this and usually acts as the voice of reason through the series, because he’s dealing with two very strong willed and emotionally reactive characters and he doesn’t let them barge into anything without thinking it through first. 

The Plot: 

The plot came from where most of my idea’s come from: excessive daydreaming lol. Basically I was thinking about different relationship dynamics and I thought back to one I had created in one of my previous series, Catching a Case of Doctor Blues *SPOILER ALERT* That series explored reuniting two best friends that had fallen apart because of drastic circumstances. They started off as enemies but eventually became closer as time passed. 

So I started to think what would happen if the two best friends couldn’t recover? If you had two people who thought they knew everything about each other when they really don’t? I played around with the idea for a while, thinking about what situation could really emphasize the problem when I stumbled onto a werewolf au someone else had posted. 

From there everything just clicked in right away - a werewolf and a werewolf slayer, best friends that think there’s no secrets between when really they’re living two complete different worlds away. I had my story and I was ready to write. 

Difficult Parts:

This is a new category I’ve added from before and that’s because I’d like to note that this series was perhaps the hardest thing I’ve ever written. Although I did try my best to work with everything I laid out, there was definitely some challenges I had with it: 

The Tone:

This series had a very odd mix tone-wise and it was a mix that at times wasn’t too hard to write, but at other times I kind of felt like yanking all my hair out lol. Basically Part 1 serves to introduce Y/N and Jungkook’s relationship. It’s fun and comedic, giving you a real good sense of what these two characters are like and what the relationship between them is. They’ll poke fun at each other, understand and listen to each other, and are extremely comfortable around each other. They’re the ideal best friends lol. However this tone completely changes when you get to Part 2, which serves to introduce Y/N’s character in more depth and make you take a whole 180 to go like “there’s much more to this character than I had originally assumed”. The tone takes a drastic change by the time you get to Part 3, with Jungkook and Y/N discovering their on opposite sides and there close friendship suffering tons because of it. The rest of the series follows what I call, a mixed tone. It fluctuates between the angst the storyline is set in, along with Y/N and Jungkook trying to repair what they’ve lost along the way to that same comedic element the first Part has, and then eventually with them getting closer as time goes on and realizing they have feelings for each other. By the end of the story, the tone is very similar to the one they had in the beginning of the series, with the reader left thinking if the events in the series actually even happened. However, Jungkook and Y/N are much closer than before, poke fun at each other’s abilities and have a much better understanding of each other than they started off with - so the stories events did take place, but the impact it left wasn’t as huge since these characters already started off strong in the beginning. 

A great deal of this tone mixture was due to my part, I really wanted to experiment and change things up. I believe having different types of stories doesn’t make things boring and always keeps me challenged in a way where I have to think differently compared to before, even if it’s a huge pain to do so. 

Writing Action: 

Now this was a challenge I didn’t even anticipate. All I had in mind was that I wanted to write a badass main character along with some epic wolf fights. However when I started writing, I realized that it was potentially going to be a harder than I had imajined hoho. 

Writing action is a little weird because it’s not so much about what the character is feeling but rather all the movements they’re doing. Basically if it’s properly written, it can get real boring real fast. I also had to think a lot in how wolves would fight with each other and with humans so that lead to a whole array of problems I didn’t expect. 

The Overall Series:

I would say I’m pretty happy with the end result of the story. It was hard and complex to write, but it challenged me to work with it and piece everything together along the way. I’m most proud of being able to take the werewolf genre and doing something different with it, so in a way I could bring something unique to the table that readers wouldn't have anticipated.