I did NaNo in... *tries to remember when the reception of Doom was* '07 and I finished no problem. Not that the story had an ending, mind you, but I hit 50-thousand and dropped dead. So I thought the next year would be So Easy.
I died within a week. :P I'd have skipped it this year but I *had* ideas and I told same friend whose reception scarred me for life about NaNo and she joined and then assumed I would join and, yeah, well.
If you email it to snarkyimp@gmaildotcom it'll be put in a place of honor on my hard drive.
I don't truly begrudge the romance fans their space (they really do get a lot of crap in general) but yeah. The last time I went, after they moved (to a bigger store, even!) I was told that SVH was too "old" and didn't move well enough. I figured this meant they expanded the YA section or maybe moved the manga out of the window so it would stop fading (year round sun + things in windows = stupid) but no. They'd taken out my SVH (and SVU) and crammed all the YA stuff together to make it smaller than ever before, while the romance section proudly ate yet another bookcase.
That book came out after I moved on from SVT, so I've never read it, but it does look like something straight out of Christopher Pike o.O It does. I'd pretty much moved out of the Valley by the time it came out and I found my copy at Kmart. I couldn't tell you anything about the book except... Lizbeth is taken over by an evil mask. Muhahaha? That and the whole Beast storyline in SVT and it just got weird in the middle school.
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I died within a week. :P I'd have skipped it this year but I *had* ideas and I told same friend whose reception scarred me for life about NaNo and she joined and then assumed I would join and, yeah, well.
If you email it to snarkyimp@gmaildotcom it'll be put in a place of honor on my hard drive.
I don't truly begrudge the romance fans their space (they really do get a lot of crap in general) but yeah. The last time I went, after they moved (to a bigger store, even!) I was told that SVH was too "old" and didn't move well enough. I figured this meant they expanded the YA section or maybe moved the manga out of the window so it would stop fading (year round sun + things in windows = stupid) but no. They'd taken out my SVH (and SVU) and crammed all the YA stuff together to make it smaller than ever before, while the romance section proudly ate yet another bookcase.
That book came out after I moved on from SVT, so I've never read it, but it does look like something straight out of Christopher Pike o.O
It does. I'd pretty much moved out of the Valley by the time it came out and I found my copy at Kmart. I couldn't tell you anything about the book except... Lizbeth is taken over by an evil mask. Muhahaha? That and the whole Beast storyline in SVT and it just got weird in the middle school.