No question is a silly question around here! 
I did a post on Triggers in the most recent challenge that I’d recommend you peek at: Day 17 | The first step to automation building: Triggers
This will help you decide how you want emails to begin.
The email will be a copy/duplicate. You can rename them however you’d like.
Do you have your contacts in a list? Or is it a segmented audience from a list with a certain tag? etc.