throwing in the towel at 20,563

[tadorna]

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.

Comments

[novanumbernine.livejournal.com]

DUCKS!!

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

n.x :)

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

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.