These 1,602 words just flowed one after another. This is a transition between arc one and arc two. Arc two is where a lot of the story begins to take place, so it’s only natural for it to start out easy to write.
Arc one will need a lot of work to become something worth having as the first third of a story. I might even have to trim it down to a smaller number of longer dreams with more things happening. The removed dreams would then be filled out as side stories, stories that show various events that happened, but have no relevance to the overall story. But this is November, and November is not the time to be planning on removing things!
World-Building
Even though the classes will be explained over time, I feel I should mention them here, as there is a stigma with the word “slave” for some people. A slave in “Dream Clover” is a person who is a part of the “slave class”. There are also attendants, people who are a part of the “attendant class”. Next is the “common class”, followed by the “higher class” (this class hasn’t been given a proper name yet, so this is a substitute name), and the “royal class”.
The royal class and higher class are similar in that they enjoy wealth, property, power, and responsibility. The royal class is considered higher, has more wealth, more property, more power, and a lot more responsibilities. Moving down lower, the common class is a class of people who do the work of the higher class and the royal class. Many of these jobs involve creation (using new materials to make clothing from, developing more efficient housing, methods to make a lantern burn longer, or brighter) and design (designing different styles of clothing, different looks for lamps and for housing).
The higher class is tasked with putting its wealth into those in the the common class whose work they believe will bring the most benefit. Not everyone in the common class will be able work in such a position, and those who cannot, instead run their own business. Most of these smaller businesses are worked by attendants, but the commoner who runs the business is expected to be able to work all required tasks on his own, be they attendant or slave labor.
This brings us to the attendant and slave classes. They are the largest physical working classes (followed by the commoner class). Attendants are people who work where they are seen. This can be a man selling clothes. This can be a nanny. This can be a chef (seen during various of the stages of preparing food, and always seen when serving food). The slave class is people who work in the background, out of site. These are the people growing crops on a farm. These are the people weaving and sewing. These are the people who make paper and ink.
People are put into their position by family. A whole family shares a class, and the actions of one member of the family may be enough to promote or demote a family by a whole single class.
The difference between 1) a slave, 2) an attendant, and 3) a commoner, are like the difference between 1) the person who runs a newspaper printer, 2) the boy who rides his bike on the morning paper delivery route, and 3) the man who handles the newspaper subscriptions while telling the boy which routes to deliver to and telling the man running the newspaper printer…whatever things he would be telling him.
NaNoWriMo Goals
Only 1,602 words?! But, but, but…so much happened! Actually, very little happened. But so much is getting ready to happen! I’m not ready for arc two to start just yet, however. Hrmm…
Overall total right now is 19,117 words. That’s almost 40% written! I kind of like NaNoWriMo. I should do this every year. This one chapter here alone is more than I would have writen in the whole month for the story were I not working to a goal shared by people all around the world.
