by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I went to DC this weekend to have a personal writer’s retreat and on my way back home, I realized the story was way too front loaded. So, once I got home, I did a lot of restructuring.
The story is a lot better now, but now I have a lot of holes to fill in the second act outline. I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it again. It’s just at times like these I kind of feel like I’m spinning my wheels. I shouldn’t still, essentially, be in the first act after this much hard work.
And, yet, here I am.
A lot of this comes from how poorly I was prepared to write the novel I thought up a few year ago. Now, however, I’m much closer. I just am at a loss as to what to write in the places that are blank right now. The best course of action is to just think of up something, anything and then fix any major problems in the second draft.
One solution to all of this is to do a lot of reading. I think if maybe if I force myself to delve into the small library of unread books I have right now, that something I read might spark the creativity necessary to fill the current blanks in the outline for the second act.
I just need to stop being so hard on myself. I have two more drafts after this one, I can afford to be really crappy now.
