by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’ve gotten into something of a rut when it comes to this novel. As it becomes more and more clear that there is going to be a lengthy post-production process, I have to start working on a few other novels so I can bounce back and forth between projects as things progress.
It’s just really difficult for me to do this. And, yet, I have to do it. I have to give myself a more structured life so I can read, use my Netflix account and work on a novel (or a screenplay?) other than this one novel I’ve been working on for ages and age.
In hindsight, I half regret not at least looking more into writing a screenplay. But I fear that moment has passed. Plenty of people my age in showbiz have a 20 year career behind them of writing screenplays by the time the reach my age. Ugh. Here I am, struggling with the second draft of my first novel.
I hate being a late bloomer. It sucks.
What I have to, at a minimum, is get more aggressive fleshing out the other proposed novels in this projected six novel project. I keep weighing different ways I could eliminate a novel or two, only to realize I really, really want to explore each story that each of the six novels is expected to tell.
So, lulz. Back to six novels.
But I also have a number of really strong scifi novels rolling around in my mind and I think I’m going to start being more aggressive about fleshing them out.It would be, of course, very ironic, if I spend all this time writing a mystery-thriller and my first published novel is one of these really strong scifi novels I want to work on.
My life also takes the most ironic path possible.
