Defeated, or at best, Victory Postponed

Less than a week into National Novel Writing Month, I decided to shelve my novel.

Why?

Simply put, I have too many things going on in terms of my writing that adding another project isn't going to help me in the slightest. So I'm going to go back to focusing on editing the novels I've got that are still in the words, push myself to actually get something either published or polished enough to start investigating the traditional publishing path next year.