by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
But for how much of an extrovert I am, I would neither write nor talk as much as I do about this first novel I’m working on. I just find it, in real terms, to be counter-productive. You have to have an obsessive personality to write any sort of novel — at least in my opinion — and there have repeatedly come points in this years-long process when I just felt like not telling anyone what I was doing.
Yet, I ‘m 100% extroverted, have no friends and no one likes me, so here I am.
Writing AGAIN about this novel when it would probably be for the best if I didn’t. I just can’t help myself. Sometimes, it’s nice to just let off some steam writing about writing, as it were.
Some of this frustration comes from I have a very clear sense of what works for me and the better writer and storyteller I become, the more all the advice I read from so-called “experts” either isn’t really very applicable to how I do things, or just seems like total fucking bullshit.
One thing that is really at the forefront of my mind is word count. If I use my scene count as a gauge — 1 scene equals about 1,000 words — I’m going to blow past the ~100,000 word count sweetspot. But this is just a first draft and there’s always the hope that at some point either when I write the second draft. Or maybe beta readers in some way pair back the word count while keeping the general story can be thought up.
That’s the hope, at least.
