by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Several years ago, at the beginning of my quest to write a novel, I got into a huge fight with someone on Periscope. They wanted me to “just write” and not do any development. This person was a fucking piece of shit and I never want them in my life again for any fucking reason.
In the end, I was right to excise them from my creative life — here I am years later exactly where I want to be. If I had “just wrote” as this person demanded, I would have wasted a lot of time and never actually finished anything. But I believed in myself and so here I am just about to “just write” on my own terms and produce the first draft of a novel I can be proud of.
I still have a huge amount of work to do, but now that I’ve figured out some pretty basic elements of the story, things will move very, very fast now. I don’t know exactly how long it’s going to take, but I’m very relieved because at last I see land ahead of me.
This is a really great story and I’m very pleased. I got this far because I stayed true to my creative vision and didn’t let random, insane cocksuckers on the Internet tell me what to do.
