Author’s Name: Kelsey Garmendia
Pages Completed: 26
Reason Abandoned: I stopped because I got tired of building a fake relationship.
Summary:
The novel is set during World War II with Shawn Wiste leaving his pregnant girlfriend home while he goes and fights.
Author’s name: Ms Nilanjana Sanyal
Pages completed: 165
Reason Abandoned: Slight complacence on this (my 2nd) novel.Also seeking to polish up the finish…
Summary:
Catherine Norton, daughter of Rachel and Ted Norton is a Millennium child. And a brave one, that too! Born on the 25th July, 2000 Catherine (Kat to her family) decides to travel to Africa where she meets Charles Goodman who recruits her into the ICRC. Things turn a drastic turn when the girl mysteriously disappears in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Most Ethiopians are now demanding a free and democratic Ethiopia and “Live Aid” and other programmes now represent to them attempts on the part of the western countries to support the Hagere Zenawi Regime. Besides, the CIA’s policy of Rendition of an Ethiopian engineer has sparked protests on Capitol Hill. But the US Administration is silent on the matter…This is where our story begins. The earlier part of this book also explores Kat’s burgeoning sexuality and her personal life…
Author: Aftab Yusuf Shaikh
Pages Completed: 40
Reason for Abandoning: I really don’t know the reason why I left it unfinished. Maybe I don’t trust my writing or story anymore. It mustn’t be a writer’s block because the first five chapters were written in one sitting in my college library!
Summary:
Aurangzeb Shah is a normal Indian Muslim teenager, who comes across many girls in his short span at school. Prominent among them are Anagha and Nandita. Anagha is soon gone with the past while Nandita stays on. It his last year at school.
The small fights of his parents take the form of huge squabbles. The mention of divorce one day forces a decision. In his foolishness, he plans to run away from home. He goes to a lesser known city called Bhivandi . There he stays with very poor family. The darker shade of life that he sees makes him realise the value of what he had run away from. He loses his cousin sister and when he comes back home, he finds out that his parents had long ago resolved their fight.
He had been wrong in judging his relationships. And to worsen things, the girl with whom he had decided to spend his whole life, leaves him.
Author: Juvenal
Pages Completed: 250
Reason Abandoned: I did finish it – eleven times. But it probably needs a few more drafts, and I don’t anticipate I’ll get to it.
Summary:
This may not sound appealing: a psychological farce, with a dab of literary pretension, about a topic as thoroughly flogged as the war in Iraq.
It takes the form of a long letter.
Princeling, the protagonist, has demonstrated to himself his utter lack courage through his failure over the course of four years in college to even approach a particular girl, much less ask her out on a date, preferring instead a silent vigil of observation.
Triggered by this realization, he joins the Navy. What does he want? It’s stated clearly on the second page. He’s not there for college money, or for citizenship, or to defend anyone from anything, etc. And his goal is not to return home a hero (or a villain) which would only amount to a change in status (a nearly anointed hero, in the modern sense of the term (‘God bless our returning heroes . . .’), is the same person he or she always was; the act(s) in question simply lays bare this essence for all to see.) Princeling’s goal is to change that very essence of his being: to move beyond his former meekness and hesitation, and to conjure up within himself – ex nihilo – the very attributes he so demonstrably lacks – manliness – daring – sensation – sensuality – qualities with which he might one day claw his way back to the girl in question, the addressee of the letter. He wants to become someone new, and believes this bureaucratic organization might be his ticket out of neurosis.
He winds up with a purposeless job in an Air Wing that performs unarmed airborne reconnaissance using an outmoded type of aircraft, the Sky Pig.
Under the tutelage of his idol, Commander Leontocephalos, Princeling quickly succumbs to the easily attained outward manifestations of personal worthiness so prevalent in the military (labels, uniforms, ranks, poses, sunglasses), and therefore believes he has succeeded – believes that he has indeed cast himself fully and heedlessly into life, with its attendant, outsized risks and rewards.
As the war approaches (a war never quite specified), Princeling’s boss, the Air Wing Commodore, Captain Coilcon, eager to impress his own boss, the Admiral – and after dabbling unsuccessfully in fabricated photography – falls under the spell of a government scientist, Doctor Feuerträger, who has been shopping around a series of newly developed non-lethal weapons. The Commodore obtains for the Air Wing a secret weapon system (STARK DISCIPLINE – the story’s sci-fi element) that promises to bolster his reputation and – in Leontocephalos’s view – rescue the Air Wing from its relative impotence – getting them all, for once, ‘into the fight.’
Princeling, meanwhile, is rather proud of his many (non)achievements – going so far as to call the girl of the story and letter-recipient to invite her to a wedding in Paris – until the clear-sighted Commodore lays him low with an inevitable and unpleasant truth: that Princeling has been grossly deceiving himself – that he’s been trying to cheat the Faustian bargain by taking the knowledge – for harnessing the power of the great machine for himself – without paying the price.
Thusly gutted, the next day – and the first day of the war – Princeling makes a crazed dash for a Sky Pig as it’s about to depart for its first mission into hostile territory – armed with this new weapon – and in doing so he finally launches himself out into the uncertain world.
Author: A.J. Norton
Words Completed: 2860
Reason Abandoned: The reasons that I didn’t finish it are mainly because I ran out of time and lost inspiration. I couldn’t think of where to go from the auditions at the hotel and wasn’t sure if the story was good enough to be completed. It was actually based on a bizarre dream that I had originally.
Summary:
A horrific murder takes place in the Prior Hotel in the fictional town of Basilton, where several people are shot by a mysterious blonde. Nobody knows the reasons why this tragedy occurred, but the Detective who investigated the murders dies many years later leaving behind a wife and daughter, Samantha. She is one of the main characters along with Amy, Jorge and Austin who form the band, Trio. They all end up going for a big audition at the Prior Hotel with a lot of other young hopefuls who want to make it to the big time, almost like an X Factor boot camp!
Of course, the hotel is haunted by the victims and assailant in the 1973 massacre, what is the connection between the four young people and these murders? Why does Samantha have vivid nightmares about a night in the infamous past? Is Sam really the reincarnation of the blonde murderer or is somebody else connected to it all? Strange events occur and the real mysteries that surrounded that night are unravelled, which have implications that have impacts even in the present day. Whatever you do, avoid the 11th Floor!
Author’s Name: Avery Morrow
Pages Completed: 30
Reason Abandoned: This is a young adult novel I wrote for NanoWrimo in college. I didn’t write an outline of the story before I started writing (a typical NaNoWriMo problem), so I got stuck one third of the way through. I’ve come back to the story many times but the problem is impossible to circumvent. I simply must write a completely different
story if I want to give this novel a believable plot arc.
Summary:
The narrator is a historian describing the events of some decades past. At the time of the narrative, a genetically engineered plague had confined humanity to a scant few cities run by the United Nations. Many people of that generation blamed Islamic terrorists for starting the plague. The main character is a clever girl who outwits and frustrates the adults around her, maneuvering her way into an upper class school. They devise a plan to get her out of their hair, which proves to be the greatest challenge of her life.