NaNoWriSe Day 5 (World building)

Oh, editing. You are such an untamable monster that hides behind corners and waits to gobble me up. You snicker in the shadows saying "Authoress, you forgot to think about this. Authoress, your world building needs work!"
The latter item was the issue today as I discovered I don't have a clear timeline for past events that happened before my book is set. The years are kind of important because they have to coincide with the ages of characters and their jobs and education and all of that good stuff.
Fortunately I nailed down my timeline today. The problem will be implementing it and making sure all of my dates are consistent.
That will be for tomorrow though. On the plus side I've joined a writing group for Speculative Fiction so I hope to get some editing done on some of my first chapters of my books. I'm excited about that. That will help me through the editing process a bit and allow me to focus on the writing part of NaNoWriSe.
Another only semi productive day down. And now, it's time for sleep. Happy NaNoWriSe everyone!

NaNoWriSe Day 2 (The First Month Novels)

Alright, it's day 2 of NaNoWriSe and unfortunately I will not be able to post tommorow or the next day because I'm going to Disney World and Universal. We'll be on the move all day, so I won't have time to be on my laptop.
However I will have my journal which I will use for ever important brainstorming.
Today I thought I would mention the genre of my first month novels. This month's victims are an Adult Crime Thriller and a Young Adult Fantasy. Really, the two books couldn't be more different. But that's a good thing. When I'm not in a fantasy mood and I want to write something more realistic and gritty, I turn to the Crime thriller and vice versa.
The novel I'm editing is actually my NaNoWriMo novel, an adult speculative fiction. It needs some serious beefing up and reordering but I think it has a decent base.
Whatever the case I have a lot to work with. I just won't be able to do anything for the next two days. I'll be enjoying the nostalgia of Disney.
And who knows? Maybe I'll get inspired there!