Whee for NaNo ramblings :-)

Mm. My NaNoNovel is *so* not going to even pretend convincingly to be finished at 50k, never mind that it's the middle novel in a trilogy so it doesn't really have to end. One of the characters who's meant to be twenty is currently somewhere between the ages of five and eight. The character who I really need to get through the Academy for the plot to progress - heck, I need to get her through, her in command of a ship and the kid through - is determined to not be the nice, quiet, studious girl she was meant to be and go and get herself pregnant instead. And the lizard-people, who aren't meant to be main characters at all, keep insisting I write about them anyway.

Maybe I should just introduce lethal quantities of white bread. And some ninjas. That should do for any semblance of realism this 'novel' is hanging onto.