by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
All systems are go for me to throw myself back into the second draft of the first novel in this five novel series. I’ve had to make a major structural change — I’ve changed the focus of the the first novel — but the heart of the story remains.
The general arc of the series (which is actually 3 + 2) is one woman’s love for another woman’s child. And the center of the series is everyone wanting control over my equivalent of Lisbeth Salander. What makes my series different is I’m laying out to you, the reader, the exact sequence of events that led my version of the Lisbeth Salander trope so bonkers.
At least, that’s the goal.
I want you to care about a character that we first see as an infant and then see, over the course of five novels grow into her own as an adult. I really like the idea that when we get to the last two novels (which were once one big novel) that the audience will totally get the allegory for modern America that I’ve been aiming for from the beginning.
I have a huge amount of work to do. But I’m hoping that all this work I’m doing on the first novel will make the rest of the novels move a lot quicker. I still have a huge amount of reading to do.
But once March 1st rolls around, I hope to really use sheer creative force, if nothing else, to get these five novels done sooner rather than later.
