I've been a writer all my life but I'm also the person who tends to give up on a story as soon as they lose interest in it. I do it a lot with fanfictions, which to me isn't a big deal because it's only a fanfiction and if I don't enjoy it anymore then why would I want to write it, but I've also done it with every original piece of work I've ever tried to write. I've become something of a laugh in my house with my family because everytime I ever mention that I'm working on something my family basically goes "Why? You're never going to finish it anyway," no matter how many times I've tried to explain to them that it's a natural thing for a writer to ditch stories in the quest for one they really want to write. But roughly half a year ago or so I had this idea for a story that's stuck with me ever since, which is the longest period of time I've ever wanted to work on something. I haven't done much work on it yet because life is kicking my butt, between being a Lit major in college and my mom having cancer, but I really want to work on, not only as an escape from my life but also because being a writer is something that I love and my goal in life is to get something published and to be an accomplished author someday. And I think the idea could be a fantastic story or a series (because the way I'm thinking of it, it would definitely turn out to be a multiple book series, although I'm not sure how many books yet) that could quite possibly rival Harry Potter (not that beating Harry Potter out is important or anything. I just want to write a book that I love and that readers will love). Although I only have some ideas at the moment and I don't have anything solid planned out yet, I'll give you a quick rundown of my thoughts.
My basic idea is for a story about parallel dimensions. The main protagonist (who is still unnamed) is a girl who was born in a parallel dimension but, somehow, was moved from that world and placed into ours, for her protection because she is part of a major prophecy in her original world (for the sake of the explanation of the idea, let's call the alternate world World A and our world World B). Her appearance was changed and she was placed in World B to live a normal life. But one day, when she's roughly 15 or 16, she dies (not sure from what yet), but instead of dying and disappearing, she wakes up in World A, in a completely different body (because she's a little strange looking so they couldn't keep her appearance when she went to World B). World A is a world where magic exists and monsters threaten to take the lives of innocents. Long ago, monsters (I'm toying with the idea of calling them Entities) and the people of the world (there are 4 races of people, but I'm still trying to decide what they'll be) lived in harmony. But some of the more powerful monsters/Entities decided they wanted more power and so a war broke out between them and the people. Bascically, a group of the most powerful people got together and tore a hole in the barrier between their world and another one and forced the monsters/Entities through it. However, there is still a tiny hole in the barrier that allows low level monsters through (that is slowly getting bigger to allow higher level ones in). However, because of the way that they were banished and because of the fact that they live in a different dimension, when they come through the hole into World A, they exist on a different plane from the regular people, resulting in only certain people being able to see them (I'm thinking of making it so that only people who have had near death experiences being able to see them but I'm not sure if I'm going to keep that) but they are still able to cause destruction and chaos. After banishing the monsters, the people created an academy to teach future generations how to fight against these monsters. The main protagonist is a descendant of one of the people who originally sealed away the monsters and has a gift that has always enabled her to see these monsters (who existed in World B as well but they were less destructive there because they didn't hold a grudge against that world) and now that she's back in her World A, she's going to start going to the academy to learn how to continue her family's tradition of fighting the good fight.
I hope that summary wasn't too long. I'm not great at summaries -_- But, basically, the reason I'm here is because I'm looking for some feedback on the story idea but also because I have no idea where to start in the planning process when it comes to this kind of story. I know I have to create the whole fictional World A, but I also still have to deal with plotting and characters and all that other stuff. So my question there is, where should I start? Would world building be the best bet to start off with, or something else maybe?
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