by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m totally rewriting and restructuring the first book in this series. The more I think about it, the more I realize how massive this project has become. But I review in my mind time and again what I’m doing and each novel has a concept strong enough to write.
It helps, of course, that essentially I’m writing a very fictionalized version of my own autobiography over the course of these five novels. But, as I have mentioned, I’m going to focus on the first book for the most part in the near term.
It’s time to put up or shut up.
I need to produce something so I can query an agent and see if I can sell the first book. From the beginning, I’ve just wanted to go through the entire process of getting to the point where I could sell a novel.
It’s just that this project has ballooned into something that I so huge that sometimes I wonder what I’ve gotten myself into. But it is a lot of fun. And here’s how I see it — I’ve finally reached land. The question is, will I reach the mainland of the New World, or will I just hang out in Cuba, thinking I’ve discovered a direct route to the East Indies?
In other words, do I write one novel, or things work out so I am successful enough that can write and sell FIVE NOVELS that are essentially my person history told by a drunk person with marbles in their mouth.
Anyway, things are going really, really well.
I still have a number of other novels, short stories and screenplays rolling around my mind at the moment. But, for the moment at least, I just don’t feel like taking any mental energy from these five novels.
