by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m kind of playing fast and lose with the quality of this “Private Beta,” but I’m hoping that if I don’t worry about quality so much at this point that I will preserve momentum. The goal is to wrap up the Private Beta of the novel so quick that I may have roughly a month to go through and fix everything necessary for it to be a really strong Public Beta.
I have to admit that occasionally I find myself remembering how long post-production of this novel could be should I stick the landing and have a relatively short querying process. It could be as long as a year! Or More! A lot — A LOT — can go wrong in that amount of time.
But I’ve decided that I want to go the traditional route when it comes to getting this thing published, so, lulz. Sometimes, it seems like absolutely no one shares my vision for this novel but me. Of course, if it turns out this novel is good enough to get traditionally published, THEN everyone will suddenly act like they were there for me, every step of the way.
Anyway. There’s a reason why successful artists are often bitter as fuck.
The next move is to wrap up the third act. I think, I hope, that I can do that fairly quickly — maybe about a week? If I’m lucky?
