Uh-Oh NaNo

It's NaNoWriMo. Have you seen my plot?

I am not big on plotting. Most of my work can be classified as character-driven. Yeah, a plot winds up in there, but I don't typically set out saying "I want this to happen, and this, and then this!" My first zombie story started out as an end-of-the-world novel, and then I ran out of steam and added zombies as a plot device. Voila, zombie novel. Also, plot!

This NaNo novel is a sequel to my Unemployment Novel, which I scratched out during a furious few months last year. I had the setting, the characters, some vague ideas of subplots and side scenes...and...well...no major conflict.

I need 50,000 words in a month. I like wingin' it, but not that much.

So on Saturday night, while some collegiate in a fairy costume sobbed to the tree outside my kitchen window that she'd "betrayed Kyle" (to be fair, there may have been someone in the shadow of the tree that I didn't see, but it really looked like she was crying to the tree), I glued together something vaguely resembling a plot. I added enemies, some intrigue, an actual reason for the story to happen.

There is not a character named Kyle in it...yet.

So far I have 1300 words. Hoorah! I am aiming for 2,000 words a day, which is standard for me when I get rolling. The problem is cramming in those words in between Day Job (notoriously unforgiving) and Freelance Job (I'm trying to build up a bank account) and Class.

Exercise? I dunno. I'll figure something out.