@Cheri Thank you for this excellent series of prep steps! I have a sort of notion of a story I'd like to tell myself (the story I want to read) but actually haven’t got beyond prep #1. 😊 That inner critic thing is such a bore, eh! Anyway, we'll see. Great series!

@Miraz Thank you! And I’m so happy you have a story idea. That’s fun! Sometimes our ideas need to simmer for a while, I know. ☺️

@Cheri Ditto what @Miraz said; I found these very educational, even though I don’t think I’ll be able to make time for NaNo. But I am continuing to mull around in my head what to do about the unexpected-plot-twist scenario from prep #1 and starting to put together characters and so forth, so maybe at some point something will become of it 😃

@Cheri I realised I have no problems writing in my usual field: non-fiction. It's terror of not doing it right that stops me writing fiction, I think. But if I can readily toss off a non-fic item then I can definitely write a fiction story that's only for me. Some prep steps now completed. 😀