by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
As I work my way through the third draft of my first novel, it becomes clear that there is a real chance it will not be ~100,000 words, but, rather ~140,000 words. That is just too long for a first novel, no matter how good it might be. But because I work in terms of scenes rather than words, I…just don’t know how many words this thing is going to be.
The heroine of my novel looks like Morena Baccarin.
And there is a real good chance that when I do the secondary run-through to tighten the the third draft of the novel down and get it ready for some sort of editor that…it will get even longer. And it doesn’t help that I’m doing all of this in a vacuum because I’m a freaky weirdo that no one likes and / or wants to have anything to do with me on a professional basis.
It is definitely going to be interesting, regardless, to see the fate of the first novel.
But I do think the second track pandemic scifi novel is really compelling. I just have to figure out how to balance my attention on the first novel with similar attention on the secondary novel.
