Ohhhh boy. So I have tossed the idea of writing a historical novel around for the last ten years or so. Various snippets of plot, landscape depictions, etc., it's all in my head. For whatever reason yesterday, I grabbed a notebook and a pencil and started hand-writing it all out! I'm on page 8 so far...
My focus is Northern Canada, in the mid 1790's. Fur trade, voyagers, Western exploration...
Now all I need to do is write enough of it so that once someone reads it, and has a criticism, it won't shut me down in the first few chapters.