The phrase "novel project" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a way of saying something is new and different, usually in the realm of business, technology, or science. For example, "The company is undertaking a novel project to create new technologies for solar energy production."
Also Jim Shepard's new novel, "Project X," which just about killed me, it was so heartbreaking.
Disability was a novel project then, and nothing illustrates this more clearly than the story of the telephone.
Shepard did something similar in his excellent, upsetting 2005 novel Project X, but that book's protagonist was a contemporary American boy.
Along with his creative obsessives, Shepard has over the years assembled a gallery of middle-school misfits, the best known of them being the Columbine-style killers of his 2004 novel "Project X".
And I've been so distraught that there are no more Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante to come after the fourth, "The Story of the Lost Child," that I've re-read the entire grand novel project.
At a news conference on Monday, the Nassau County executive, Thomas R. Suozzi, trumpeted a novel project to spend $1.5 million in restitution from a corruption case to "root out and prevent waste, fraud and abuse".
I think after that I will work more seriously on my novel projects.
With military budgets shrinking and private-sector information technology development growing at an explosive pace, the advanced projects agency is increasingly looking for ways to repackage civilian technology for the military as a cost-effective alternative to sponsoring novel projects.
The brigade participated in one of the most novel projects of the war — the construction of a canal below Vicksburg to bypass the city and its guns, mounted on a bluff that commanded the entire river.
Divided into 39 brief scenes, the show has a highly episodic pace and relies on some awkward exposition, with characters alone onstage talking to themselves and passages from the novel projected on the set's sliding panels between scenes.
DUBAI — As the United Arab Emirates gears up to become the first producer of nuclear power in the Arab Gulf region and Saudi Arabia starts exploratory drilling of shale and other unconventional gas reserves, one of the biggest challenges facing the energy-exporting Gulf states is finding enough trained staff members for these novel projects — and for their conventional oil and gas industries, too.
