Hello, reader. My name is Afnaan. I live on Earth, in the solar system, Milky Way Galaxy, in the vast cosmos of the universe. I am writing a novel called “The RuneScape”. The first thing you should know about writing a book is that it is quite difficult coming up with original ideas. If you have difficulty with that, I feel your pain. The way I came up with the concept of the RuneScape is first of all, I brainstormed. I failed to come up with an idea using that method (Brain-puking all my thoughts onto a lined piece of paper), so I tried the next best thing. I grabbed my books from my bookshelf and sorted them into alphabetical order (I’m not weird, I just think clearly when I do that). As I was sorting, a brilliant idea sprung from my highly logical, non-creative brain. Why don’t I just take inspiration from my favourite books? I thought. I found my favourite books (Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, Maze Runner by James Dashner, Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan, and Legend by Marie Lu) from my neatly placed and organised pile of books (Not to brag) on my desk and read through those books again. Yes, I had that much time, because I had finished all of my math homework from the day before. I took some good ideas and plot-lines from the books and added my thoughts and finally reached a conclusion. I finally had a solid plot for my book! (Yay!)
I needed to inaugurate (Start) typing before the thoughts disappeared from my head in a puff of smoke. So, I grabbed my laptop and opened a word document and started writing. “Jack hated his life. He was orphaned when his mother and father disappeared mysteriously and never reappeared.” “He had planned for ages to escape BIG HEARTS orphanage. With its dusty walls, creaky floors, and horrible mistresses.” I learned that you have you be very descriptive and paint a picture in the minds of your readers (And don’t use fancy words so that your readers don’t have to search up the meanings on Google every five seconds).
Fonts! Yay fonts! My favourite part of writing a book is choosing the font. For the title, you can use pretty much any font you want. But for the actual writing piece you have to use: Aster, Cambria, Cambria Math, or Bell MT. It’s best to use these fonts because they are distinctive and easy to read.
Last of all, you absolutely cannot write a book on your own. Keep writing, keep working, keep developing, but you will always need help in one of these areas: Writing, Illustrating (If you want to), the Cover art, and Publishing. Keep this in mind if you plan to be “Cool and independent” (Wow, I can’t believe I said that).
I hope you enjoyed reading my blog. I hope all of the people who desire to be an author found this at least a little bit helpful. I wish you a good day!