by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
My first novel now has to be a lot more character driven than it once was. To the point that I need to do some reading to flesh out my characters. I mean, at the moment, I don’t know much about mid-90s feminism or Riot Grrrls. But I can read and, as such, I can make my characters a lot better.
I’m no longer a drunk writer.
But time is running out.
I need to wrap this baby up ASAP so I can start to query it — and maybe its sequel.
I definitely feel a bit uneasy about a few things. One is how much work I need to do to with this new version of the first novel. The second novel is thought-out pretty well because it’s essentially two third of the original second draft. It’s the murder mystery part of the first novel that I took out to make it a character-driven novel about a power struggle over a community newspaper.
Anyway, I have two novels that I want to at try to finish by July 22 — the 20th anniversary of my first journey to South Korea in 2004. I think there is at least a chance that I can pull such a thing off, but it’s going to require a lot — A LOT — of hard work on my part.
