Writing can be very difficult to describe. It starts with an idea, a thought, an image, You cultivate what you have and nourish it with more ideas. Sometimes the best way is to ask yourself meaningful questions? Why is the world the way it is? What makes my story different? What ideas or themes am I challenging? Does this make sense? How does everything work together?
Anything creative starts from basically nothing. It starts with an empty page, a blank canvas, an unmarked musical page, or some raw material. Through skills, experience, practice, and exploration we artists and creative types transform that material into something of value. It's filling a page with ink, charcoal and color. It's filling a page with words that paint that picture and draws to life those characters. It's like a clump of clay that can be molded into anything that you desire. I sincerely believe that writing a story is like having a clay ball that must be formed into a pot or an art piece.
Especially for my fantasy story, I have worked with it, created characters, made magic system based off one that I am familiar with, and tried to create a story based on that. I ended up not liking it and scrapped most of it. However, I still have what I wrote, and kept certain aspects of it that I wanted. Mistakes will be made, scenes will be scrapped, characters will be rewritten, but it's all for the final goal of a completed project that someone wants to admire and appreciate. That is what writing feels like to me.
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