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The story goes through any number of drafts until it has been refined from a story that perhaps wasn't very good into a story that readers will want to read and remember. If you've never written a story before, you might be wondering how one actually writes a story. Quite simply, there is no simple answer. No one waves a magic wand, no one gets put under the spell of an inspired Faerie—they just write. For some, this begins with a few words that blossom into an adventure; but for others, this can be a struggle to capture complex ideas in meaningful words. You see, writing itself is the process of...