by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I have printed out the “Fun & Games” part of the novel and now am going to go through and edit it. This going to involve a fair amount of writing and rewriting because there are some pretty big holes here and there. But my overarching goal is to keep momentum going, so I decided to go this route.
I needed a win and this was a quick and easy way to give myself one. I’m feeling pretty good, overall, with where things stand. I thought I might be finished with the first half of the novel by now, but, alas, it definitely seems like it could be next week before that happens.
But I am moving forward, and that’s all that matters. I’m going to try to do some more reading — especially rereading books about writing — so I can stimulate my creativity some more. Things have really stabilized with this novel and, really, the issue at the moment is simply being willing to put the hard work into things.
I am also a little concerned that while the overall story is interesting that it’s not dark enough in some respects. But the story is a very accessible, easy read that keeps me, the writer, interested if nothing else. This novel is such an easy read that it’s possible I might make it such that one could theortically sit down and read the whole thing in one sitting like I did with Daisy Jones & The Six and The Martian.
I’m very, very, very poor at the moment, but reasonably content.
