by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
My novel features a pretty big chunk of scenes that involve stripping and that has made some early readers blanch. This has upset me to the point that I’ve decided to go through and rewrite big portions of the novel to make it a bit less spicy.
But just having stripping in the novel to begin with will turn some people off, obviously. And, yet, I feel a little bit better that a stripper movie, Anora, has become popular. It makes me feel maybe it’s possible for me to have stripping in the novel and people still be willing to read it.
I am only slowly beginning to get out of my doldrums when it comes to writing a novel in the first place. I just have to believe in myself. I have to accept that even if I write the novel I want and it’s a success, I’m just not going to get the context for success that I have hoped for.
I can feel myself slowly — slowly — begin to feel better about working on a novel, any novel. I think I’m also going to work on the scifi novel that I have rolling around in my head, just so I can have a back up.
I keep saying that, then don’t do anything.
