October Novel Prep Challenge

I hate to say it, because I just spent a few hours completing the last of these assignments, but I will probably scrap the whole prep and start over tomorrow with a blank white page. The Prep I have been doing won't be wasted. It is turning into the prequel to a book I have been working on, but not one I am probably going to do next.

My best work ever starts with a character and an idea and a sense of adventure. I usually do this kind of prep, but I do it while I am working. My outlines get color coded, yellow for unwritten, green for needs work, (other colors as needed) so I usually at least know where I am headed. My characters are willful. They always surprise me.

I've been in hospital, on mind fogging drugs and in the last month I have written over 30,000 words not related in any way to the NaNo I've been planning. (Alright, so a couple of the days I spent working hard on that and 'forgot' to work on these preps, which is why I am a runner up instead of a 'winner' in this challenge.)

If my writing style sounds all over the place, that is because it is. I began this challenge with a list of 12 premises, each with an interesting unique lead character, setting and genre. I did the first few assignments for all 12, and then began eliminating them.