by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
So. I have a second track novel, a scifi novel that has a lot of heart. It’s one long rant about how people refuse to acknowledge the climate emergency that we currently face.
It conceit seems pretty obvious to me, to the point that I could see someone stealing a march on me in movie form soon enough. And, yet, I really love the idea — an am angry enough at MAGA — that I’m willing to risk it. No one ever got anywhere in this world without taking a risk.
I’m really allowing myself to be as fantastical as I like with this scifi story. I have the basic plot down in my mind, the trick is to flesh it out as quickly as possible. I’m not going to live forever.
I’m playing it as safe as possible with this novel — a single male POV who tells the whole story that hopefully will come in under 100,000 words. My hope is that maybe, if all else fails, I can sell this scifi novel first and use that as leverage to sell the longer thriller I’ve been working on for a few years.
I have another pandemic-themed scifi idea in my mind that I may begin to flesh out soon, too. I like the idea of being able to bounce back and forth between different projects now that my thriller novel has stabilized some.
But, I don’t know. It will be interesting to see how things work out.
