At MyUnfinishedNovel.com writers post novels that, for a variety of reasons, are unpublished, unfinished, or abandoned. Created by “six-time failed novelist” Steve Wilson, the website who calls for fellow failed novelists to show their faces. “It’s time for all of us to face our shame and share our failures, bathe in our lack of dedication, explore our artistic nebbishness.” Each unpublished novel is accompanied by a “reason abandoned.” Here are a few:

I realised that it was an immature, over-dramatic personal fantasy of a novel. I’m a bit disgusted with it.

I stopped writing it because I graduated high school and found myself with a lot less free time than I used to have.

After a while, though, I found out that this idea was too obvious and too boring to sustain a novel.

I also came up with a better idea for a novel.

I started my novel a few years ago, but after completing the first two chapters I ran of ideas, therefore I stopped writing.

The unfinished nature of this novel is not failure but rather a kind of catharsis – at least that is what I keep telling myself.

I just switched to flash fiction.