Indecisive.

I'm still doing Leeder's Grain for NaNo.

My original indecisiveness was brought about by concern over the fact that I have been loosely laying out ideas for scenes (like, this character will do this, I have this image in my head of this character standing there and an overall emotional impression, etc. Nothing solid). The idea that bothers me is that NaNo is centered around the concept of spontaneous prose, as well as starting from scratch. Technically I am starting from scratch because the plot/characters/design overall is a COMPLETE re-vamping of an old story that I'd put together when I was very young, but this bothered me anyway. Due to that, today I had a bit of indecision about whether I should use this story or use the next six days before NaNo begins to come up with an entirely different plot.

Ultimately, I decided that I would remain with Leeder's Grain as my NaNo project, because ultimately I know the plot, I know I would be capable of writing 50k of it (if not more, whereas I have absolutely no semi-solid ideas or scene concepts floating about my head for any 'new' novel), and because I just took out 15 books at the library on mythology/fairytales to research, AND received bucket-loads of information from a friend who is an expert on medieval arms and armor from a variety of cultures, as well as fighting techniques/sword styles, etc.

I now have hundreds of links/books to look through. I doubt my work will be complete with just NaNo, but I think that it is necessary that I work on Leeder's Grain during the course of the month of November. Doing so will result in a workable draft that I can manipulate and refine once my research is complete, and as a result perhaps I will complete this story faster and be able to move on to new projects (and potentially get it published).

And so, Leeder's Grain it is.