I want to get into Game Design but don't know where to start.

Hello, if you're reading this than I would like to take the time to thank you for reading through what will be quite a number of my own issues. My name is Tom and currently my dream is to get into the game industry and design games. 

My post will be split up into three sections, each that I'll try to keep short, but I may ramble on in the effort to try and describe the issues to how I feel fully describe them. Simply put, the issues I would like help with are:
* Where can I …