NaNoWriMo: Flying by the seat of my pants, this year:

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Basically: I want to devote 90% of my attention to a fiction world for a month just because I need a vacation from the real world, and I can't decide on a "Destination":

• Dark -- bordering on tragic, with lots of hurt/comfort
  
  • Pros: lets me process my depression by changing my stress into metaphors I can control, and lets me comfort myself by writing scenes where my characters comfort each other.
    
  • Cons: I'm entering a potentially dangerous space while already feeling vulnerable.
  
  
• Light -- with Dr. Seuss-like absurdity and Piers Anthony-like puns.
  
  • Pros: Creating a world that is a clear alternative to the dystopia I feel my country sliding into in the real world.
    
  • Cons: Not my wheelhouse. Will trying to write that way leave me even more exhausted, mentally? And will Avoidance-with-a-Capital-A make it harder to "return" when the month is over?

The train is leaving in ten days, and I don't know whether I should pack for a ski trip in the Alps, or a cruise through the Caribbean...

I haven't been this much of a "Pantser" since my very first year, when I didn't even know NaNoWriMo was a thing until a couple of days before it started...