I am having some serious struggles with this YA novel that I am working on. Many factors are contributing to this. One is the return to school, and the fact that I no longer have a life. That is not much of an exaggeration. I'm teaching two night classes as well as my full time teaching job. It's rough. Perhaps I should see it as an opportunity to separate myself from my work for just a while and come back to it with a new perspective.
The problem is that the plot is very complicated, almost to the point of being indecipherable. I won't go into all the details, but it's written from the viewpoint of an unreliable narrator, one who suffers from a mental illness and has hallucinations. I don't know how to make the illusory world real, even though it isn't, without totally baffling my readers.
This is the novel I'm doing as a project for my writing class. My instructor keeps telling me that I have talent as a writer, but that she just can't follow my storyline. I wonder if I'm trying to be too tricky. I have to ponder it.
I have a sinus infection that is really getting on my nerves. It's making it hard for me to teach too because my throat is sore and scratchy from drainage.
The problem is that the plot is very complicated, almost to the point of being indecipherable. I won't go into all the details, but it's written from the viewpoint of an unreliable narrator, one who suffers from a mental illness and has hallucinations. I don't know how to make the illusory world real, even though it isn't, without totally baffling my readers.
This is the novel I'm doing as a project for my writing class. My instructor keeps telling me that I have talent as a writer, but that she just can't follow my storyline. I wonder if I'm trying to be too tricky. I have to ponder it.
I have a sinus infection that is really getting on my nerves. It's making it hard for me to teach too because my throat is sore and scratchy from drainage.
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