A public rant, if you will
Let me give some backstory. I am currently 17 and I still have absolutely no idea of what I want to do with my life, although I do enjoy being creative and having skills in many fields such as writing, drawing, crafting, and so on.
A while back, roughly three years ago, I tried to write a small story. Well I began it on paper then moved to a word doc. But then after about 20,000 words in I realized I had literally no plans for how I wanted this to go, I had just made a concept of what the characters looked like and acted like, no actual plot
So I totally scrapped that idea and gave up. Then a couple months later I discovered wattpad and started reading whatever I found interesting and after a little over a year I wanted to try again, this time I got an idea from the writing prompts page here on tumblr and went off of that until it changed completely about four times.
For this story I made sure it was different, I made a very rough outline of how I wanted the story to play out and went to work on it. Let's just say I only got about four chapters in, each with roughly 2,000 - 3,000 words. Soon I realized I didn't plan enough and unpublished what I had and made plans to go over what I started but never had.
Cut to about three months ago, my instagram feed had been showing me many posts about how to build your own story from the ground up, what you need to think about when making characters, pretty much how to write a good book. And all of those got me think of the failed attempts at writing I already had.
I continued to read actual published book and wattpad publish books until finally I started planned my own story. It was mostly in my head as just a concept for a fantasy world that I wanted as my base. A few days ago at work I put my plans into action by sketching out a rough world map on the back of a notepad.
Once home the following night I got my bullet journal (that I had also forgotten about when I was trying to do bullet journaling) and started again with a world map, then I got to naming, then i got to creating the different types of creatures i wanted and then we get to today when I'm writing this post.
This is the actual furthest I have gotten in any sort of planning and i haven't even started on a plot or any actual characters. I realize whether you are planning to write a fiction based on the current world you live in, or a world entirely made up, that you have to start from the very bottom and work your way up to your actual story writing. Rather than jumping in with very shallow characters and absolutely no storyline to actually follow.
If you actually read any of this I appreciate it and if you have yet to start that worry you been wanting to write, just remember to plan out what you want before you try to write, or else it'll just make it 100× harder.
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