NaNoWriMo18: Day 26

Although I’ve won NaNoWriMo18, I haven’t quite finished the novel.  Actually, that’s a bit of an understatement, because I know that there is much ink to be spilled and there are many tears of frustration to be cried before my manuscript magically transforms itself into the first draft.  My writing hour today was spent trying to flesh out some of the vague generalisations that were in the first mix, and it’s a lot more difficult than I thought.  When Ilse and her daughter flee Austria, they arrive in Switzerland and are granted Tolerance Permits, which meant they could live there, but couldn’t work.  I’m struggling to work this into the story because if they couldn’t work, how could they survive?  Further research shows that this was probably only a privilege afforded to rich refugees … but I can’t stop there, so winging its way from the USA is a cheap second-hand copy of Ludwig’s Die Flüchtlingspolitik der Schweiz seit 1933.  If I can’t find a workaround in there, I’m either going to have to put her in a labour camp or make her very rich, which means re-writing great chunks of the earlier work.