by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
One of the key things I need to do with this month of development and reading is work on my characters. I keep thinking about working on different novels that are not in-universe, but it’s the character building and name issues that hold me back.
I’m come up with such a huge universe with these five novels that there’s not much point in writing anything else. If I get frustrated with any one book I’m working on, I can always bounce to another one and work on that. I have a pretty big cast of characters — many of them are POV — so that adds to the challenge I face before me.
I have so many female characters that I have begun to consciously begin to make more of my new characters male to even things out.
But anyway. I hope to get a lot of work done this month. It’s helping a lot to change gears and relax by thinking about something other than the first three chapters of the first book.
I think things are going really well with these novels. I just have to get outside my comfort zone.
