It all began after I got pleasant feedback from my friends regarding three of my short stories. I decided to collect them and write a book. In the meantime, I came across a video of DowlatAbadi (Iranian Writer) in which he was talking about how young writers should just stop reading and start writing. This was It. I had to define a project and follow it precisely. I wrote this post with the sole purpose of helping other aspiring writers. Maybe What I did (and didn't do) inspires someone. Here are my steps (respectively):

1. Deciding about the pages: 200 pages
2. Deciding about the number of stories: 12 stories
3. Choosing a general theme for all the stories: life and death
4. Planning and timing. This can be a pretty unstable part of the plan. If you decided to finish a story in one week and failed, don't fret. Just go on and don't get disappointed at all. Stop thinking about time. Focus on the story.
5. After the planning, I started overthinking. “What if I wrote all the stories and no one published them? Who should I even approach? Should I even wait for someone to volunteer?”
6. I selected 20 publishing companies I liked and wrote them in a list. The first one was Cheshmeh, a veteran of Iranian literature.
7. After finishing the list, I made a deal with myself: If this doesn't get published, I will post the PDF on the internet. The publishers have the right not to like my work, but I can't just stop doing what gives me so much joy. So if this one doesn't work, I will start the next project.
8. What would the next project be?
9. I made a list of all my ideas. This boosted my confidence a lot. I had so many ideas to write about!
10. I designed the steps with complete transparency.
11. Two rereads, one final reread, editing, making the final order, finalizing the names, and the most important one: finalizing the book's title.
12. I assigned timelines for each of the steps.
13. I started and took notes of the time I spent.
14. After that, everything was about the plan. Just think about what you are doing, nothing else.
15. Some days you don't write, and that's OK. These days, spend 2 hours working on the project even if this “work” means only thinking.

Now that I'm writing this article, I have a full lookout for what the tenth story is about to be. I will probably finish it in the next couple of days, and two more will remain until the end of the first part of my plan. This was supposed to be finished before, but I don't care. I did my best. I laughed and cried with my characters. I completed my other ideas and changed and replaced some stories so I could write them in a better time (with more experience). I even selected one story to use for a comedy play.
I will complete this post along the way, but for now, I have just realized that when you walk on a path you love, there is not really much more to worry about.