throwing in the towel at 20,563 [sheldrake]

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Yeah so, I've given up on NaNo. It was getting boring, and I lost myself in the tangled maze my novel had become. I think perhaps it was the moment when I found myself preparing to insert the entire recipe for

lazulus's coconut and cinnamon buns into the text, that I realised it was a lost cause. One day, maybe, I'll revisit it and attempt to hack my way through the briars and find something resembling the story. On the plus side, I won't be going on about it any more! (Yay).

I'm going away now to hibernate and read 'The Secret History'. Goodnight.

Mood:: beaten, but not bowed

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DUCKS!!

i was enjoying your snippets. and recipes never did laura esquivel any harm!!

n.x :)

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I know... and thanks for saying so - but it was pissing me off. I'm not abandoning it forever, mind. I like some of it, and I like the characters, but I think I need to work out where in the name of all that's holy the plot thought it was going, and also why I felt the need to stick great chunks of Hansel and Gretel in the middle of the action, to no point whatsoever.

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Well, at least you tried!
Night night, sleep tight - don't let Gollum (or Andy) bite :)
x

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Yeah, and it was fun while it lasted.

Night night. :)

(Andy can bite a little, as long as he wears those tight trousers of his.)

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Well, I'm sticking the whole of 'over the hills and far away' (Sharpe version) in mine....

Mind you, I did stick 'Ice Ice Baby' in the last one when I got desperate.

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Ha! Yeah, I worked out fairly early on that people suddenly bursting into song was a Good Thing. But it's got to the point where even random copying and pasting off the internet isn't going to save it.

Good luck for the next 4 days or whatever it is.

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heh. Also, large chunks of lectures and exposition? also a good thing. If you're desperate, make your characters have a sit-down story session or discuss a film/book!

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Thank you. :) Yeah, you're absolutely right about the planning -- it's a whole different kettle of fish from a short story. I did have a go at planning this one, but it went slightly awry. Perhaps because the planning stage ought to have lasted more than a week. But I'm sure I will go back to it at some stage.

Good luck with the panto!

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I was given The LIttle Friend for bday but not yet read cos was reading Ann-Marie McDonald's The Way The Crow Flies which I got totally immersed in and obsessed by. Read Secret Hist in Feb and liked it. Not as fabulous as McDonald's book but still good. Tell me wot u think.

(Lj withdrawal makes inner spelling police deteriorate. I know we like to feel superior by always spelling everything out and only now and again allowing ourselves the ironic omg liek wtf but heck, is so much faster 2 leave out the spelling police injunctions & just 2 type in words liek nite & thru.)

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rite on!

I'm really enjoying Secret History so far, in a 'read it all night' kind of way, which I haven't had for a while. So that's nice. Tell me about this McDonald book please.

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