Going To Spend A Few Weeks On A Creative Reset Of The Four Novels I’m Developing & Writing


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Watching “Mare of Easttown” kind of rattled my creative cage a little bit and raised my personal expectations for myself. As such, I’m going to buckle down until the end of August and not only do some of the reading I should have done some time ago, I’m going to also really focus on the four outlines of the four novels I have planned.

But it’s the reading that I really need to focus on. Now that I realize it’s stuff like “Mare of Easttown” that I’m competing against I am determined to up my game. Another issue is I hope if I really, really establish the outlines before I start writing then they won’t keep collapsing on me and things will move a lot faster.

All of this is growing very embarrassing given how long I’ve been working on this project, but I don’t have anyone to tell me no and it’s my life, so, lulz.

Anyway, I hope to get a lot of reading done, a lot of work one the four outlines done and maybe even dabble in a little bit of short story writing. Ideally, I would also teach myself Final Draft, but that is probably going to get punted down the road some more.