Cat prompt response here. Didn't manage to finish the story, by any means. This should give you all an idea of how god-awfully slowly i write! I kind of like it though. If it weren't for the fact that it's 5 AM and I haven't been to bed, I would finish it...

Hi all! Here I am at college, still trying to piece together this lousy novel I started this summer. It's getting unmanageably long for online posting (40-odd pages--10 miles behind me and 10 thousand more to go, in the words of James Taylor) , but I definitely need help. Here's the problem--this is just the start of my first draft, so should I even bother asking for critiques? Or do I just roll with it until I get at least one draft done and THEN find some poor victim to help me repair the damage? Does anyone have any advice about how to craft a novel, or know of any such resources a strapped-for-change NYU student could turn to for assistance?