Given that I didn’t move far from my office chair, and played a game, and watched other people play games, I actually had a reasonably productive day. More or less.

After six days in a row of work, I decided to go full lazy today–and you should never go full lazy–but then I ended up tinkering in a notebook.

As I prepare to start National Novel Writing Month again, I’ve found myself, against my better judgement, scribbling out ideas for a science fiction novel. My goal this time is to start from scratch which, in all fairness, is the intent of the event. The two times I’ve done NaNoWriMo before I tried finishing works in progress: the first one I didn’t finish; the second I did finish, but it nearly broke what’s left of my sanity.

There are a few problems. As I’m world building, I’m also scribbling random bits of dialogue and scenes which may cause me to write sections I can’t, technically use as part of my 50,000 words. (I vow here and now not to use them unless I’m really desperate to finish.)

I also find myself becoming more interested in world-building related research than the actual characters. This is a form of procrastination that gives the appearance of working without actually requiring work; kind of like cleaning your desk and checking your email before you write.

The last problem is that this blog has remained a daily project despite my intent to make it a few times a week project. Unfortunately the daily habit has set in strongly enough that I find myself trying to think of topics after supper and, for some reason, avoiding the list of topics I made a long time ago. Also unfortunately, it hasn’t set in enough for me to do any prep before supper to make the writing easier.

My goal is to start the NaNoWriMo process on Monday. I will, but first I have some research to do.