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I Am Writing a Novel

Sometimes I feel like this novel is sucking the life out of me. Can I ever finish it or will it be one of those never-ending projects that is talked about with pity upon the author's death?

I have 200,000 words and 2 parts. I've planned for a 3rd part that I have yet to start. The story has become very convoluted by this point. That was always the intent, but now that I'm tasked with wrapping it all up, I wonder if I've bitten off more than I can chew.

The story is Kafkaesque; it concerns two college-aged friends who find themselves unwittingly involved up in an increasingly inscrutable conspiracy. I think about the novel all the time--I'm constantly planning and reworking and I don't even know whom I'm writing this for. I've only shared it with one friend who helps me edit it.

Oh well. Back to work 😩
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Pfuzylogic · M
Reading a book called “Plot Perfect” by Paula Meunier. It is helping me with structuring the components of a Novel in a systematic method. I read “The Castle” and “The Trial” with K as the main character when I was 20.
Kafka is quite the author to emulate.