I'm going to try to start tonight. I'm going with a loose interpretation of "50,000 words total of novel and world-building/characterization notes," because I didn't have time to do anything like as much pre-writing as I'd planned.

I didn't have time to do anything like as much pre-writing as I'd planned.

I didn't do any. I'm going with an idea I had a few months ago, but I only have half a page of very basic notes. The setting and some of the characters are pretty well formed in my head, but I don't have anything like the foundation I usually do when I start writing.

So ... I'm counting my paragraphs as having started today, and I'm going to brainstorm some plot stuff tonight.

This is an idea that I've had in its most basic form--a baseball story with a time traveler--for ages and ages, but it only took on a definite shape, with characters and stakes, in the last couple of months. Part of that taking shape was realizing having my time traveler really needed to come from the 1920's rather than the 1860's as I'd originally planned, and since what I know about the 20's going in is that they were Roaring and led up to the Great Depression...yeah, I'm winging it.

Way to go all of you that have written something today! Woohoo!

Oh, yay, Calli! And the rest of you who have actually written something. I've begun, but as Amy says,

I have characters, setting, and themes, but not an actual plot.

This is the story of my life. We'll see how it goes.

I think it's weird that I predominantly write crime, yet plot is always the part I'm the worst at.

The cover is coming along: Title

I still have a lot of proofreading to do. But it's been very clean so far. A lot of eyes have already looked it over.

Oh, very pretty!

Nice!

Nice, Gud!