by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
While on a structural basis this novel is really stable – I have a very good outline — when it comes to actual copy on the page, I fear I’m going to have to rewrite pretty much the entire novel.
Lisbeth Salander is a really interesting character and I hope to write characters just as good.
The key reason for this is pretty simple — character.
I have all this plot and just not a lot of character. So, to take things to the next level, I’m going to do a lot of development about character. The more I think about character, the more I realize I just have to scrap about 90% of what I’ve written.
A lot of scenes of the most recent version of the novel were just placeholders from various different versions of the novel I’ve written over the years. Now, I have to go through and give it all some consistency.
I think it’s reasonable to assume that it’s going to take me about three months to rewrite the novel. I think that is pretty fast, all things considered. And this is possible because of how well I know the overall story I want to tell.
I probably need to start working on the sequel to this novel as well, but it’s really difficult for me to focus on such things.
