well, I had a lot of sarcasm. I admit I'm approaching this with a lot of fear:
Fear of not accomplishing it
Fear of actually coming up with nothing worth considering further
And really, those two are enough fear for me.
Despite what I've said, I do realize that there is lots of good to come from it. But I've been struggling with what idea to use because I want to do something good, but I'm worried about sacrificing something I have a lot of attachment to. So I've been going through my idea file to find something I've come up with that has potential, but I don't love yet.
However, I feel most comfortable with my newest cohesive novel idea, which comes out of reading King Arthur Pendragon (the RPG) and the Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages: 350-950 (of which I really only read the first part, and nothing about Byzantium -- I should feel guilty about that, but I was just trying to learn about the far fringes and outside of Romano-Europe, and there was almost nothing about that in what I *did* read, so ....).
The setting is a fantasy empire, where the Emporer is a sort of King Arthur figure and establishes the Imperial Knights to correct injustices and enforce his progressive laws. The local kings and nobles don't go in for this chivalry smack and so there are lots of conflicts. The plot focuses on (a heretofore unnamed) peasant who troubles his lord and so gets sent to join the Knights to get him out of his lord's hair. He has a lot of personal issues and growing to do, yadda yadda. Low magic setting, but I came up with a lot of cohesive plot and conflict ideas, so it's shaping up fast. I like it a lot, and I'll be working on it starting saturday. It's also one that i don't have to re-write a chapter to claim I actually started in the allotted time period
Now I just want to get started. I'm very anxious to start.
I'll be working the surprise Entropy and I have planned in the mean time to kill the next two days.