by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m finally getting pretty close to the end of the first act. My hope is that once I reach the second act that things will move A LOT faster because I’ll have relationships down pat. Once the cornerstone of the novel is laid, then everything else should move a lot faster.
That, at least, is the dream.
I am now hoping that there’s a good chance I might enter the second act within the next few days, if I’m lucky. I still believe I can wrap up the second draft by no later than July 4th, if not that previous weekend.
But I’m really going to have to buckle down.
And once I wrap up the second draft, then I’m entering totally new territory. I just don’t know — at the moment — how I’m going to get people to participate in the beta reader process. I need people to stress test the novel’s conceit and I can’t very well do that if people ghost me the moment I have something for them to read.
This happens all…the…time.
The only solution is, of course, to be someone else’s beta reader. Or maybe a few other people’s beta reader. As such, I really need to get back into the habit of reading fiction on a regular basis.
