by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I really have no idea what I’m going to do about this thriller. It’s still got a lot of sex in it and there’s a real risk that it will be closer to 160,000 words, not the 100,000 sweetspot for a first-time author.
Ugh.
And, yet, I just don’t want to change anything. I have a vision and I’m going to stick to it.
But I do think I may pick one day of the week, maybe two, where I don’t focus on the thriller but rather work some other novel. I really have to do something because, well, lulz, Bad Things happened to me the last time I “finished” this novel and realized it was no good and I would have to start all over again and I definitely don’t want THAT to happen.
Yet I really like the premise of this novel. It’s really interesting. The crux of this version of the novel is I have a pretty solid first act after really struggling with that in previous versions.
But this version of the novel holds up really well, overall, I think. I’m a little worried that once I reach the second act that is going to be the moment when things slow down dramatically and I’m going to have to do A LOT of re-writing. I’m so tired of rewriting things that I’m really going out of my way to not have to do that — at least with this version.
The next version, before I start to show it to people again, I think I’m going to force myself to actually rewrite a lot of scenes that I’ve been too lazy to.
