Day 2: 2045 words
The trouble with writing speculative fiction off the cuff is that the lack of worldbuilding begins to make itself really obvious right away. All I've done so far is to introduce the three main characters in conflicts that were meant to highlight their central Issues. I used encounters with people who'd push those buttons so that I could concentrate
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The solution is simple! Remove the comma! Then you'll have: "I'm drowning people." Once that's accomplished you'll have fewer secondary characters to bog you down and it'll be a cinch... or you'll be completely screwed. One or the other. ;)
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Darlin' you've made me happy. Maybe I'll go really crazy and forgo all commas and other incidental punctuation. If I live on the edge all those corpses will be as nothing to me.
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Hey, ee cummings was successful without punctuation. Go for it. This is NaNo. Anything is permitted. Well, almost anything. I can't use the 9K word count from my business plan in my word count. Curses, foiled again.
On a serious note, build your world as you write. Just make notes as you go and eventually, your world will build itself. You can tweak it during rewrites. Just keep writing, dahling, and you'll be at 50K with a mahvelous manuscript.
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