by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
After a lot of back and forth and moving things around seemingly forever, I finally *think* I have a stable first few chapters of the 4th draft of the thriller novel I’ve been working on for years and years. I’ve put in a little bit of verbiage that eliminates the need for an entire novel going forward.
For that and other reasons, I think I’m down to four novels total in this specific project. I think. But the first novel is a murder-in-a-small-town novel. The second novel is a little bit more of a character study, but I think it’s interesting enough that people will want to see the plot I’ve come up with unfold.
I think. I hope.
But the point right now is to just finish the first novel. I also, as always, have a number of other novels I’m working on, but the thriller is the one that I’m most passionate about — it’s my passion project.
I KNOW, I just KNOW that I should focus on one of the other novels — most of them are scifi — because they’re more marketable in a traditional way. But, for the moment, I dun’twanna. I’m hoping to zip through the first act of this novel pretty quickly, knowing that soon after I hit the second act things are going to come to a screeching halt for a variety of reasons.
But I know this overall story so well, that hopefully I’ll be able to wrap up the entire thriller by no later than just under a year from now so I can turn around and start to query.
I’m trying to lean into AI as much as possible because I have no friends and no one likes me, but, lulz, AI can only do so much — especially with explicit scenes that it deems to raunchy to even look at.
Anyway. I’m having fun.
