TheokinsJ
Troubadour
Hi guys, sorry if it's a long read, I just want to say a lot about the situation I'm in and to express how I'm feeling.
I'm currently sixteen years old, in high school and wanting to write a fantasy novel/series. Ever since a young age I have found english comes very naturally to me and that I love to write.
From a time very early in my childhood I have had this character in my head, and I've never been able to get him out. He's grown up with me over the years, a character who is my age, and is everything I want to be in reality. He's really so real I could touch him- I've started a dozen novels with him as the main character over the years, and then half way through ditched it and started over. Every time I've restarted the plot has evolved and gotten a thousand times better, as well as my writing skills improving until now I am at a point where I feel that I am finally ready.
For the past year or so I've been pretty laid-back about creating my story, thinking up ideas for the plot and world-building every now and then, drawing maps and writing lore and never taking it too seriously. My mistake I made all the other times I've gone to write is I've been so eager to start I've started writing and not even plotted where the story is headed. Now I'm at a point where I have the story around 60% done, and a whole bunch of lore and background information sorted out. Everything is so vivid in my mind, it's like my world is real, I know every city, every place on the maps, I feel like I'm ready to begin.
Yet... there's a hint of doubt in me. I feel as if I'm not ready yet, as if I need to know EVERYTHING before I begin. I've heard of authors planning books for years until they write them, and somehow I don't see myself doing that. I'm wondering when I should write my novel- wait a few more years until I develop my ideas a bit more, or begin now, or in a few months? I don't spend hours every night trying to think up ideas and forcing myself to come up with solutions to the blank spots in my plot. I just do a little bit of work on it every weekend or ten minutes every night, I write when the ideas come to me- I don't try to force myself to come up with the ideas.
Does anyone else do this when starting a book? Do other people plan their books casually like I do? Or do you sit down for hours and try to come up with ideas? Furthermore how long does it take you before you think that 'your are ready' to sit down and write your story for real? Thanks for reading this rediculously long post, hope I didn't ramble on too much
I'm currently sixteen years old, in high school and wanting to write a fantasy novel/series. Ever since a young age I have found english comes very naturally to me and that I love to write.
From a time very early in my childhood I have had this character in my head, and I've never been able to get him out. He's grown up with me over the years, a character who is my age, and is everything I want to be in reality. He's really so real I could touch him- I've started a dozen novels with him as the main character over the years, and then half way through ditched it and started over. Every time I've restarted the plot has evolved and gotten a thousand times better, as well as my writing skills improving until now I am at a point where I feel that I am finally ready.
For the past year or so I've been pretty laid-back about creating my story, thinking up ideas for the plot and world-building every now and then, drawing maps and writing lore and never taking it too seriously. My mistake I made all the other times I've gone to write is I've been so eager to start I've started writing and not even plotted where the story is headed. Now I'm at a point where I have the story around 60% done, and a whole bunch of lore and background information sorted out. Everything is so vivid in my mind, it's like my world is real, I know every city, every place on the maps, I feel like I'm ready to begin.
Yet... there's a hint of doubt in me. I feel as if I'm not ready yet, as if I need to know EVERYTHING before I begin. I've heard of authors planning books for years until they write them, and somehow I don't see myself doing that. I'm wondering when I should write my novel- wait a few more years until I develop my ideas a bit more, or begin now, or in a few months? I don't spend hours every night trying to think up ideas and forcing myself to come up with solutions to the blank spots in my plot. I just do a little bit of work on it every weekend or ten minutes every night, I write when the ideas come to me- I don't try to force myself to come up with the ideas.
Does anyone else do this when starting a book? Do other people plan their books casually like I do? Or do you sit down for hours and try to come up with ideas? Furthermore how long does it take you before you think that 'your are ready' to sit down and write your story for real? Thanks for reading this rediculously long post, hope I didn't ramble on too much
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