by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
While plenty can still go wrong, I’m quite pleased with the state of the novel right now. The thing that makes me so pleased is I’ve managed to come up with scene after scene that has a reason for existence and is interesting.
And it’s all powered by my lingering rage over the Trump Era. For a moment after Trump left office, I thought I might lose that creative energy. But it I’ve managed to bounce back very quickly. My rage against Trumplandia is now white hot against because I know it’s not going anywhere. It’s going to come back with a force the second Trump is wrongly acquitted by the Senate.
So, I’m going to push forward. I’m working on the assumption that the very reason why I wanted to write a novel in the first place — to rage against Trumplandia — is still there, just the context is different. I always wanted this novel to be very much a part of the zeitgeist so what has happened the infrastructure for the novel so why not just use it.
As such, I’m quite pleased.
There’s a lot ahead of me in this project. There’s a lot I don’t know, like how far I can get through this project before it all grinds to a halt because it’s obvious that I can’t get past the gatekeepers.
But we’ll see. I’m really pleased with this novel. For the time being, I’m going continue to allow myself to be delusional.
