I enjoy writing, but sometimes my muse works overtime and I hardly work at all. Ideas come to me, the good and bad, and I sift through them categorizing them into ideas that are worth pursuing 'now' or 'one day'.
My current problem is that I have written too much fantasy in too short a span of time. (I think, my NaNoWriMo draft is stealthily approaching the 70k mark). The problem is not that I have too much to write, but rather too much to write about.
In my original NaNoWriMo draft, I just arrived to a point where I skipped ahead five years, and then another 15 years. Authors do that all the time, but those initial five years is too long a time to skip. Those five years are there so that the characters can forge relations and their knowledge of the world is drastically expanded. Now I'm at the point where I have to go back to that period and fill in some of the gaps.
To date, this is my most ambitious writing project; I enjoy, and am proud of, the fact that I grew this world from scratch and it works. So maybe the economy won't work in a real-life setting, but the characters give colour to the work.
But, my fantasy muscles are exhausted. I think they were flexed too much (they had been flexing since mid-summer, when I had my initial idea, and continued to work up to now); mind, I'm not giving the project up. I'm just going to finish the current segment (i.e. the five years) and then put away the novel to rewrite the second half of the draft.
I had the idea, I actually want to, write something that is realistic; set in the real world. So far I've never written anything like this and have mainly focused on fantasy and surrealism. There's nothing wrong with fantasy and surrealism, but I can not call myself a fiction writer if I'm unable to write a story without resorting to magic or faeries so that my characters would be able to pull themselves out of a fix. If I refuse to try something beyond my boundaries of fantasy and surrealism, I'll be a fictional writer instead of a fiction writer.
I have a couple of ideas for such a story, but I want to make sure that the idea is plausible in a real world context, but more on that later.