The main character’s name, Mikayla, was chosen because it is one of my favorite names. I had started with the Michaela spelling of it until a friend of mine, who I had read some of my first draft to, sent me a text saying, “I can’t wait to hear what happens to Jason and Mikayla.” I instantly went and changed all instances to be spelled Mikayla.
Each chapter switches between the different point-of-views (POV) of the characters, so you can see it through different perspectives. This is common in the online book and I had made it to chapter 6 before I decided to move away from the narrator point-of-view and tell the story through the characters’ views. I found it was easier to tell the story switching between them and I personally enjoyed it more knowing what each character was feeling at any given moment.
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It was important for me to not only introduce the characters to you as the reader, but I also wanted to give you a feeling of where they were in their lives when everything changed, so you could emotionally understand Mikayla’s choice between the simple life and her hesitation with the wolf-life.
The Business Management report and presentation which brought Jacqui into Mikayla’s life is how I met one of my best friends. It was an unlikely pairing and we ended up hitting it off from the get-go. This was a shout out to her.
Any good night I had out with my friends, started out with dancing and singing with them