by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I have to accept that some of the elements of the novel I’m working on will probably pop up somewhere else in pop culture. I’m soaking up some elements of the modern zeitgeist that inevitably, INEVITABLY someone is going to beat me to the punch on.
I just have to accept it.
So, even though I thought up an heroine having a sleeve tattoo first, some heroine in a popular Netflix movie will probably have it way before I try to pitch my novel. People will say I copied this character element from the Netflix film, even though I’ve had this part of my heroine’s depiction already thought out for some time.
There’s just nothing I can do about it.
The novel is shaping up to be pretty cool, all things considered. And, the more I think about it, in a sense this is the second draft of the novel because so much of the novel is completely original from what I had before.
About two thirds of the novel is, in a sense, first draft at the moment. So to rewrite it would put me at second draft stage.
