Hi, new guy here.
So, I have been writing a story. I'm afraid that I will leave plot holes and stuff while writing so I double-check it when I finish a chapter. I also keep notes about what have I revealed about characters and what I will reveal later to keep things interesting and not bore the reader to death with pages of extensive backstory. This fear of writing a bad story is probably the only thing that constraining me while writing. I feel like if I give names to those nameless people the proganist speaks for like 5 minutes and moves on, I must not forget that guy later. Or, if I reveal the age, profession, hometown or anything about a character, I must not forget it and write the story according to any tiny details I reveal. The fact that I'm trying to create a fictional country doesn't make it any easier. I even checked this post before posting it a few times.
I decided to start writing this story in the middle of the night, I was bored to death and I wasn't feeling sleepy at all. Also, no internet for 3 months means you gotta find some kind of a hobby. It started out as something I did when I was bored but I really liked creating a story out of nothing. I was going to keep it short (like 5,000 words) but as I wrote I had many ideas that came to my mind and I couldn't help but expand the story. If I keep going like this it will be no shorter than 30,000 words. I'm rather slow at writing this since it's just a little hobby but if I keep this up at this speed it will be finished in a year, two years top
I don't have much encouragement and free time to keep writing for now so it's at an hold.
Shortly, story is about a man who went through a car accident. He injured his brain in a way (I wrote a long theory about it to make it seem realistic) that he loses himself rarely in dire situtations. It's something like
Hulk. However, when he is in a situtation like that his only goal becomes the survival of the mind. Note that survival of the mind depends on how mind defines itself so it doesn't mean he goes rampage against anyone near him. For example, McUrist's mind defines itself with only his family and nothing more (it's not that simple but since it's just an example...) so he commits suicide after all his family dies is an unfortunate accident. Definition of mind is an interesting topic and I have decided to take it as a basis for creating this fictional injury. I know. It sounds like bullshit. I'm still doing research about psychology to make it better.
Also, while in this state, the psychological restraints we have that keeps us from overexerting our muscles doesn't trigger while in this state, giving him more strength but leaving him tired and in severe muscle pain afterwards. Normally, this kind of stuff only happens if you are exploding with adrenaline or something. This strength I mentioned doesn't make him Superman but he has enough strength to lift an average man with his one hand and throw him away for like 2 meters.
Of course, there is more to it than. It will be a story about revenge. The protagonist is a
type III anti-hero leaning towards type IV. He will be Type I at start but I'm thinking about some big character development as the story progresses. His best friend (who also married his sister recently) had big debt and when he died, the guy who he owed money to decided to make sure his family pays. He and his sister is the only family that guy has so he is in trouble. Also, the fact that police is looking for him because of a murder means much more trouble.
I'm also telling the story from the perspective of an old police officer, who had his wife raped and killed years ago, looking for our guy who is blessed with a badass injury. He was ambitious and a rockstar for the police but after the incident with his wife he became a rather weird guy. Now, this is the part I feel I'm going to fail because I have no idea about how police works out murders and stuff. I had to look up what "ballistic report" is. My idea of police investigations are mostly based on old noire movies. When I'm telling it from the policeman's perspective, the genre turns into a detective thriller and I don't know the first thing about them.
There is also a former office worker who works in a brothel for the last year but it's rather difficult to tell things from her mind. All these three characters have chance of dying and if I decide to off any of them I'll introduce new characters.
I'm writing it in my native language now but I'll translate it into English too. I have already written 7,000 words. The story is written with western cultures in mind. The fictional country is very mixed when it comes to nationality but it's mostly US-based with a pint of Russia. So it will be stupid not to write it in English but I felt I would express myself better with my native language.
So, if you managed to read all this text, I hope you can offer me some advices too