by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I didn’t keep a good enough watch on the calendar and now I realize I’m not going to sell my first novel by the time I’m 50. As such, I have to take a deep breath and recalculate what I’m doing with this project. I now am on tract to query my first novel in fall 2023 — about a year from now.
I say that because I have to write at least two drafts of this novel, then turn around and done one final draft before I can query. That will probably put me in early summer 2023 and, as such, the fall 2023 querying season is when I will be ready to go.
Not only could a lot — and I mean A LOT — of things go wrong, but no matter what, the context of any success will be different than than want I originally wanted. I think a lot of that has to do with middle age kind of snuck up on me because I don’t have a wife or a girlfriend to remind me of such things. I have been drifting towards my goal, willfully delusional as to the specifics on how I was actually going to accomplish it.
Now, however, I am in a new stage of things. I have a solid fleshed outline to work with and it’s so good that I’m kind of impress with myself. If I can just buckle down and focus more I think I might actually produce something enough to at least not embarrass myself.
