The thing that inspired my story, was something that I thought would happen in the future. As my short story said, “The year is 2042”. I chose this year because I did research and found an article that talks about the future. It stated, In the year 2050 the population will be expected to reach around 9 billion. I didn't want to choose the year 2050 because it seemed too futuristic to me. I did try to match the population with the year 2042 to give the reader an actual statement that they could keep in their heads. Now onto the setting. I made the setting the way I did because I tried to be realistic. You will read realistic a couple times, because that is what I was aiming for. Anyways, I picked this setting because I thought it would be good because it could relate to someone's actual life. I wanted the reader to imagine the setting if they were in it and as one of the characters to see how hard it will become to get/use water. The setting was located in a well populated city, Rossburg located in the Eastern United States. The city wasn't poor, but also wasn't rich. Most people that were poor had a huge water fee that they couldn't pay in which the bank would take, and it would go up for sale. We lived in one of the nicer areas, most because we had a team of 3 and had jobs to help pay the rent. Moving on to the plot, I was again, aiming for something realistic. I wanted the beginning for the reader to know the characters and to see what their roles were. Then towards the rising action, I wanted the story to start to get interesting and have the reader want to see what would happen next. Then, at the Climax, I wanted something that would have the reader's heart beat go up when the boys heard a footsteps above them. Finally at the Falling action I wanted the reader to understand what the struggle was to just get water without paying a massive fine to the government. Next, would be the conflict. Now, I didn't want the story to have any conflict, but their was a couple parts where there was. Towards the middle I mentioned the team who went to steal water from somebody else a while back. Then I said that the house owner had a gun and that it didn't go so well. Finally, the characters. I intended the characters to all get along with everyone and nothing where they didn't want to talk to each other… In which I did. The characters all got along and worked together as a team to get the work they needed done.

Brett Barry