by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
While I’m quite pleased with how the third draft of my novel has turned out, it is clear to me that it’s just too saucy — there’s too much sex. As such, in an effort to save the novel — and hopefully get it published traditionally — I’ve decided to ground much of the sex in the alcoholism of my protagonist.
So all the natively judgmental people who just can’t handle sex in a novel will have something to latch on to. I get to have a lot of sex in my novel and they get to be judgmental about why it happens.
Going this route won’t even require all that much rewriting. I have a lot of scenes that I can now rework to accommodate the new context without having to spend a lot of time totally writing new scenes out of whole cloth.
That, at least, is the vision.
