Book writing

I had started writing a book back in 2020, the first step is always the hardest to start. Once you're over that, it's easier from there; when writing your book or any story for that matter, do your research as you go along. It makes a big difference when writing out your book, I found out a simple trick that helps is to see if the title is copyrighted. Now, what copyright means the title and the characters already created by an author; there had been problems with Plagiarism, where the title and/or the characters were copied by another author. That's liable for a lawsuit, that's why research and choosing your title carefully is paramount; I looked up to see if the title I have was already in use before starting. I don't think my brother understands that Beauty and the Beast was already copyrighted by a French woman when she wrote the story and also by Disney back in the 1990s; I really don't want to see my brother to be in some hot water, especially legally. I would be okay if people would love to make fan fiction stories from my book, in fact, I would be happy to read them and comment on the stories; writing fan fiction stories is apart of how I had started in writing in the first place writing fan fiction for Anime I watched when I started high school.