Getting Back To Writing - Writing My Novel Part 1

So I've decided to try and work on finishing a book for once because I'm still wondering how I'm going to get my story from point A to B since I know what the ending is but not really how it gets there. And so I'm hoping that maybe I could get the thing done even if it'll end up being a colossal failure with the plot development as I have never really tried to grab the attention of anyone for a full novel length, whatever that really means. I think I'm going to try and get to at least 65000 words for the book and so far I'm at around 3500 so I'm about 5% of the way there already. And it is really hard to come up with things to do with the whole having no real idea where to go.

I have at least the basic idea of the structure of the plot where the first day is more of the basic setup for the character and setting, day two is the initial reaction to the conflict (the one girl disappearing) without it being really clear about that it is a disappearance until the next day, which is where the main character finds out due to meeting up with a detective whom she befriends and tries to help out with his investigation in any way, by way of looking up things on her own. And then the fourth day is kind of the same thing except for the whole ending of the book happening there, as it has a ending that just ends without a clear resolution which i think works fine and is in tone with the story I'm trying to get across. Whether or not it'll end up being a good story is anyone's guess. Even if it ended up going well, it'll probably not market well, due to either being a sort of young adult novel that is really trying to be dark or a deep story that isn't well written enough for intellectuals.

And it would be a strange thing if the book ended up doing well that I could at least get some decent money off of it but I don't really expect that to happen, especially if I can't keep the ending the way I want it to. Although I do have a plan to write an extended epilogue where there is some sort of story regarding the detective and him finding the one responsible for the ending but I kind of have the plan to make it like the end of like Twin Peaks or The Vanishing as the basis of where the story is going to go. It is rather weird that I take influence from a ton of other sources for my writing besides books. And it's not like I don't like reading. It's just I have a hard time finding stuff to read along with having a hard time keeping my attention to things. So I'll try and maybe work on the book some more and maybe post about it again when I reach around 10000 words to discuss the progress.