Help I need to write my own sonnet poem, how do I START?

Question

I have to write a "italian sonnet" on having arrived at the age of 18. with a abbaabba format

how can I start the poem, any ideas?

example,

On His Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-three

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,

Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year!

My hasting days fly on with full career,

But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.

Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth,

That I to manhood am arrived so near,

And inward ripeness doth much less appear,

That some more timely-happy spirits indu'th.

Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow,

It shall be still in strictest measure even

To that same lot, however mean or high,

Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven.

All is, if I have grace to use it so,

As ever in my great Task-master's eye.

Answer 1

Now that I am 18 some say the world is now my oyster

But I'm really on the line of a boy and a man

a confusing time to be sure, but I do what I can

Sometimes afraid and sometimes in a fluster.