More NaNoWriMo

It's day four of NaNoWriMo, and I am already feeling a little burned out.  When I went to Orson Scott Card's Boot Camp, I cranked out 10k words in 24 hours.  At the time, however, I was holed up in a hotel room with three roommates and no other responsibilities.  I just had to keep myself fed and somewhat rested and turn in a manuscript by the deadline.  This is different.  To keep up with the 50k words in one month goal, you have to crank out a mere 1667 a day.  No problem, right? 

Monday went fine.  I exceeded that goal by 1000 words.  The next day was Ryan's birthday.  I was lucky to get out 1000 words in the few hours I had to write around lunch out & birthday prep.  Wednesday was better.  Today, so far, has been a real struggle--issues with children, a doctor's appointment to take out stitches, etc. etc.  I still need to write five hundred words before midnight, which is just six hours away and will be filled with homework, chauffeuring duties x2, dinner, and other evening activities before moving on to lunches, showers, and dishes.  And... I'm starting to not feel so creative.  This is a marathon, folks, not a sprint.  And yes... all of us have day jobs whether we are being paid for them or not.  To all you NaNos--hang in there!

The story itself is going really well.  It seems to be developing organically, likely because I don't have as much time to over think things. I did spend about 4 hours yesterday on housework while trying to decide how Dax and Kendra's world worked.  The novel is based on a short story.  When you make a story longer, though, it also needs to be deeper.  This means quite a bit more world building--particularly if it is SF/Fantasy.  This world is mostly contemporary, but some of the fantasy elements needed to be thought out.  Even if all of the "rules" don't go on to the paper, I need to know them in my head in order to be consistent. 

What kind of worlds do you dream of?

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