@TheWhiteBleidd: I don't really want to dissuade you from writing, but as someone who was somewhat involved in the literary society, I feel honest critique is the only way to support a beginning writer. If you'd want to continue writing not just as a profession, but even as a hobby, you must be prepared to face critique, which is especially daunting if administered by strangers that are interested in using your works to boost their own egos. Might as well start in a friendly environment, like this forum
First and foremost what strikes me in your posts is that you don't have the conviction. You don't know what piece of your story you'd like to share with us, meaning you don't really want to
tell a story; remember that if you write something, you usually write it for
someone. If you don't like your story enough to share it with others, then it's probably not good enough anyway. Either scrap it and move on to something else, or polish it so that you'd start to like it. Or share your unfinished story with someone, wait for his critique, then use it to improve your work.
Make no mistake, writing only seems easy, but it's not. From what you wrote, even though you intend to write whole three books (a common beginner's idea, myself included
) you don't have your story planned, even though you are already writing it. For you right now it may seem like a good idea, but for anyone who'll be reading it, and who'd have done some serious reading before, it will be immediately apparent - and hard to bear.
In reality, writing a novel is a rather mundane process that usually looks somewhat like this:
1. You have an idea for a story. Good for you!
2. You spend couple of months planning your story. How to write it? Who will be the narrator? What characters will be involved? Who are they? Why are they in the story at all? What are relations between them? What is their background, how do they feel, how do they think? What will be the outline of the story? What main events will be taking place and why? What smaller events will be taking place and why? In what locations? In what time span? And so on, with hundreds of various questions. Some people end up doodling hundreds of pages in dozens of notebooks, or have sheets of paper covering the floor, or (like Sapkowski) have their walls covered with post-it notes. On many occasions the notebooks contain more information than the final book.
3. During the planning phase you also do research: about the times, about the history, about the beliefs, geography, weaponry, specific scientific theories, castle siege tactics, horse breeding, cheese making, kamasutra, various other things you'd want to include in your story. Research is important. Especially since there will always be the one guy who knows nothing besides the single thing you did not research, and he will bring you down so hard you'll cry for the next two weeks
4. Once you have everything set, start writing.
5. Writing is about filling standard pages with text. A standard page is 1800 characters, spaces included. Two hours of work on one such page is considered a reasonably fast pace.
6. During writing some changes to various aspects of the story are inevitable. Hence good planning is paramount. Remember: reader will spend far less time reading your book than you writing it. This means that even finishing your book he will remember facts from its beginning, many of which you'd have forgotten somewhere in the middle of your writing. And he will sneer on you. Good planning will help to minimize the sneering occasions.
7. Once you complete your story, put it away for at least couple of weeks, preferably couple of months. Best would be couple of years, but only rarely writers can afford that. The time is for you to get detached from your story, to the point where you'd be able to enter the role of the reader.
8. Read the story. Deal with the "WTF!?!" and "did I really write that?" moments you'll experience at least 5 times on each page.
9. Make necessary changes and corrections. Re-read the story, make even more changes and corrections.
10. After several iterations command someone to be your proof-reader.
11. Think hard on your proof-reader's opinions, some of them will surely be of merit, but some may want to point your story in a different direction than you intended. You're the author, you must decide.
12. After that you (or preferably someone else) do editing. It's a wonder how many broken sentences and stupid mistakes one can make while changing things in his text.
13. Hooray! The story is finished. Go eat some ice cream.
14. Face the torrents of critique going your way on the Internets.
Having said that, I do encourage you to write! Most of professional writers started similar way. And I do like the fact that you're interested enough in books to give writing a try. Just be prepared that your first creations will suck (I know, done that myself), and if you'd want to improve, there's a lot of work to be done. If I may, I'd suggest two things: do not try to write a book (or a trilogy!) at your first try. Start with a short story. Or a couple. They may be about the more interesting events you wanted to put in your books, but shown as distinct episodes rather than parts of a larger story. Short story is far easier to master than a long one. And the second advice: write in your own language. Writing in a language that is not your native makes it way harder to judge whether what you're writing sounds good or not.