by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The thing I’ve noticed about this novel is the stakes just aren’t very high. As such, I’ve been thinking about ways to change that. It seems to me the best way is to add an element of scifi to the novel.
My heroine looks somewhat like Olivia Munn in my imagination.
This works for several reasons. One of those reasons is if I sell the novel, it won’t be as big a deal if I also write scifi novels. Given my inclinations, I’m probably going to be something akin to a scifi author should I ever get published — which is barely a possibility given how difficult it is for someone like me to sell a novel at all.
As I say that, I realize that I’m going to have to rewrite much of the novel to accommodate the change. The risk is, of course, that the novel will become too muddled because there will be too much going on. But I’m so ambitious that I’m willing to risk it.
And, if all else fails, I can always just rewrite elements of the novel to focus it as necessary. That might slow me down some, of course, but in general I believe that can pull it off.
But I am going to have to think pretty hard about exactly how I will pull this particular change to the novel off. Regardless, I really need to raise the stakes one way or another.
