@DannyGlade12 damn thank toh for checking out my book! Its my first time hearing that someone recommended my book so its such a confidence boost ngl. But to answer your question, I might disappoint you. I come from a religious family and I have grown up with such stories. The most motivating factor was that my parents are not pushy with their religion and both me and my sister talk and discuss about mythology a lot as if it is completely fiction (just how someone would discuss about their favourite movies). For this book, my inspiration came from completely out of spite. I read a few Mahabharata ffs on wattpad and was so put off by how glorified the pandavas (or the kauravas in some cases) were shown and how Krishna was literally given a free pass for basically torturing the female lead by putting her in a time where nothing of comfort existed. So I just started writing with an oc that felt more like me (pretty atheist, fed up of life), but had a bit of character that could propagate a plot (army veteran, needs to go back home).
And believe me I had millions of ideas about how to progress, but none of them fit. I always knew how I was gonna end my book, so I just needed a climax that would propel the story forward towards the epilogue. And to come up with THAT was the main challenge. If you keep reading the story you'll see how frustrated I was throughout for not getting a sure idea of how to form the climax.
And no, I never learned writing but I was an avid reader before joining college, so that helped. The writing did improve from my first fanfic (the Naruto one) but I do not think it is that good, just better than average Wattpad lingo I suppose because I was 18 when I started writing this book.
All the best for your book tho! Feel free to drop the link of you want me to read
