Stilton: You are clearly a rabbit with enough on its plate... :-)
A pity, but if the time ever allows, it really is worth a go.
j0ekerr: Actually I do have 20-odd year old setting for a story. Problem is, it's an adolescent power fantasy in which practically every character is overpowered. You see, the kernel of the story originated during those long treks to and from school, particularly during the bits were you split with your friends and walk the rest of the way alone, and you occupy your mind with... adolescent power fantasies about overpowered characters.
Thing is, the damn thing kind of stuck with me, I fleshed it out, gave it a background, a history, I never really abandoned it and slowly evolved it over the years.
The main problem though, is that the main character was always practically on
Tiamat power levels. Which as I grew out of the power-trip phase, I realized how unwieldy and mary-sueish that was. So I eventually left it behind, although I still remember it fondly with the nostalgia of a simpler, easier time.
Stilton: Sleep well, Fearful :-)
j0ekerr: Same from me.
If a story idea has stayed with you that long, then it sounds like it needs to come out. The 30 day routine produces a first draft with hopefully enough material in it to know if it can be refined into an eventual finished product. In this respect its really useful as you can work out fairly quickly if an idea has the legs to become something interesting. Maybe it'll be worth trying it if only for that reason. And it doesn't have to be done in November. I did my first one solo in February of whatever year it was - the month format simply provides a familiar framework to keep the work moving forward.
Tomorrow the real fun begins.... \('o')/