by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Today, I hope to do a lot of reading. And when I’m not reading, I hope to be fleshing out the second novel in this proposed six novel project. If I had any money, I would have gone to New York City this weekend for a little Writer’s Retreat — but I’m flat broke.
Anyway, things are going really well with the first draft of the first novel I’m writing. I hope — hope — to wrap the first draft up by no later than the end of the year and the second draft no later than at some point in spring 2023. Then, as I keep saying, I will be in position to query during the fall 2023 querying season.
I continue to feel, however, that if I’m going to pull this off, I’m going to have to do a lot of reading and re-reading. Too many of my characters continue to be just moods or ideas created for expediency’s sake.
But I hope to change that soon enough with a lot more reading.
