Sooo... I woke up early today, around 4AM. Then something just kind of snapped in my head and I finally just decided to start writing a book/story. I've had this image of the beginning & rough idea of a fantasy story for quite a long time but I've never gotten around writing anything. It's still a VERY rough idea, but this night/morning, I came up with the first sentence of the book and I personally liked it so much that I googled if there was some software that was better for writing fiction than NotePad on Windows. :D Downloaded something called yWriter and started writing what I had thought up.
Now I have 820 words written. Not a whole lot but better than nothing. About 348 words of prologue (+ notes for the chapter that are ideas of where the prologue will go/end) and 424 words of a chapter later on that contains a fairly substantial twist to the story. I'm not sure if it's an end of the book or just a mid-book twist. It could work as both, though would be a bit cruel as an end of the book cliffhanger (which kind of makes me like that option more :D ).
Not sure if this is a good way of writing but now that I have a little bit of the beginning that sets up the story and the twist written out in some detail, I feel like I have something to work with & towards. Now I just need to figure out what would be an interesting, captivating & organic way of getting from the beginning to that twist-y point in the story, as well as flesh out the world. It's fantasy but I don't think I'll incorporate much if any magic into it. Mostly just picked the genre to have a bit more freedom with the setting, not to be hampered with historical & geographical accuracies and not to step on any toes by accidentally writing something insensitive about some real group of people/historical event.
I've never really written anything good but essays. Whatever creative writing I've had to do, it has always been super derivative (like, we had to write a short story on my 7th year of elementary and it was basically Blair Witch Project except set in my town, lol). But if I can ever finish this thing and polish it to some level of decent quality, I think I might have a pretty good story in my hands that, while very likely will be influenced by many of my favorite books, isn't just a copy cat of them.
Not really doing this in the hopes of becoming a pro or finding success, it's just one of those many dreams of mine of finishing a book/story in my life (much I'd like to make at least one music album that I'm personally happy with in my life). This is a start.
