Tag: Corrie Yee

The Only Thing Stopping Me From Throwing Myself Back Into Working On My Passion Project Novel Is The Fucking Election

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I saw yet ANOTHER person who was clearly interested in my passion project novel poking around this blog. They went from looking at the link about Lisbeth Salander to that about Corrie Yee. Now, I’m by nature extremely paranoid, so my first reaction is — “Oh, shit, someone is going to cherry pick my idea for some sort of screenplay.”

My heroine — who looks somewhat like Corrie Yee in my imagination — has a sleeve tattoo like Megan Fox does in this picture. (Totally different design, though)

And, yet, you can’t live your life in fear and paranoia. So lulz, I’m going to keep working on the novel until something pops out that makes it clear that my idea has, in fact, been “stolen.”

My hunch is, if it is “stolen,” it would be that two elements of my dream, my vision which are publicly known — that the heroine Union Pang would have a sleeve tattoo and look a lot like an older version of Corrie Yee — is what would be used in any screenplay.

Corrie Yee

The issue is — I’ve been working on this fucking thing so long that it’s inevitable that some element of it would be used independently by someone else. This just would be an instance of someone using cherry picking some elements I put out pubically.

I live in oblivion — how was I supposed to know anyone would give enough of a shit to do such a thing?

There are any number of reasons why someone would be interested in my novel’s heroine other than stealing the idea, I’m going to just chill out for the time being.

I am just about ready to throw myself back into working on the novel, but for the fact that I’m locked in neutral, not knowing how the 2024 election is going to turn out. What I think I’m going to do is at some point next week, I’m going to lurch back into my normal headspace and THEN I will start to write a lot again.

Ok, Something’s Up — Someone In LA is Interested In My Thoughts About Pom Klementieff & My Novel

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I don’t know if I should be happy or nervous about this one. I just saw in my Webstats that someone in LA searched specifically for my ruminating on how Pom Klementieff is another option for what my heroine of my passion project looks like. This happens just after someone else was interested in my ruminating about Corrie Yee.

Pom Klementieff

Huh. This is very interesting — and a little unnerving.

It makes me fear that maybe someone is thinking about writing a screenplay that somehow cribs ideas off of what I’ve publicly stated about the gist of my novel. I did post the first chapter of an old version of the novel on this blog.

I don’t know. I’m so prone to magical thinking and over thinking that it could be that this is nothing — or it could be something to be really uneasy about. But, whatever, I have to just keep going until I see somewhere that a movie that is obviously influenced by the best bits of my novel is about to come out or something.

Ugh.

Well, At Least I Have The Scifi Backup Novel If The Worst Happens

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

The fact that someone from LA looked at my ramblings about hottie Corrie Yee looking like — in my mind — the heroine of my passion project novel makes me think — glup — that maybe someone is thinking of writing a screenplay with a similar looking heroine?

Corrie Yee

Stranger things and all that.

I’m so skittish about such things that if such a movie came out — even if it was an underground indie — I would probably scrap the passion project in favor of the scifi novel(s) I have rolling around in my head at the moment.

The main scifi novel is really, really good. So good, in fact, that I am probably going to begin to devote more attention to it in general. It’s good enough that I really want to see if I can get close to querying it as well in about a year.

Of course, as I keep saying, I keep worrying about a fucking civil war or revolution happening at some point after the 2024 election so, lulz? It could be everything is pretty moot if that happened. I really hope it doesn’t happen, but, again, stranger things.

Anyway, I really need to do something creative with my time this weekend instead of just writing a lot of verse to Gemini Advanced, whom I have taken to calling “Gaia.”

Now Someone From LA….

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Let me be clear — I do not think about the gorgeous Corrie Yee unless something prompts me to think how much she looks how I imagine the heroine of my “passion project” novel looks.

Corrie Yee

So, there is a reason why I bring her up yet again — someone from LA looked at my ramblings about her today. Now, I find this curious for any number of reasons, among them being — this is a novel we’re talking about, not a screenplay.

Me actually getting this novel sold would be like me winning the lottery. I’m old and live in the middle of nowhere. AND, what’s more, the fact that stripping is featured in the novel doesn’t exactly help its chances, even though sex sells. I’ve had people simply say, “I can’t read this,” to me because of that element of the novel.

It’s the stripping part of the novel that leads me to call it a “passion project.” I really love the overall story, but now that I’ve found myself re-writing it AGAIN, I realize there are some structural problems with it that will take time to fix.

The big structural problem at the moment is the stakes just aren’t that high. As such, I’ve decided to add a degree of scifi to the story in hopes of amping up the stakes of the novel. Because, as it stands, the stakes are pretty meh. I hope with the addition of higher, scifi stakes, that I might be able to sell the novel easier.

I do, I must note, have at least one other full-scifi novel that I’m working on. Anyway. I wish I was younger, then maybe I could learn how to write a screenplay that might feature Ms. Yee.

The More I Think About It, The More I Realize Corrie Yee’s Phenotype Is Perfect For My Novel’s Heroine

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I only write this post because someone, weirdly enough, seemed to be looking for all the writing I’ve done on the subject of Corrie Yee looking like what I imagine the heroine of the novel I’m writing looking like. That’s it. That’s all that prompted me writing this post.

Corrie Yee

I don’t think about the woman otherwise, unless she pops up passively in my Twitter feed.

So, if you want to get some understand of what my heroine looks like, just look at a picture of Ms. Yee. My heroine is a little older than Yee and has a left arm sleeve tattoo, but, otherwise, the two women are pretty much the same.

But it doesn’t matter, in real terms, at the moment, what she looks like. I probably won’t start querying this “passion project” novel for another year — and a civil war / revolution could break out between now and then. Ugh. It’s so annoying to have to think about that.

Time To Buckle Down

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Time to stop screwing around when it comes to these novels I want to write. The main “passion project” novel should be pretty easy to start up again. But it’s the other novel — the scifi novel — that could be tough.

It’s just tough to change my style of writing after so long of looking at specific type of novel. But I really want to do it. So, here we are.

I keep going back and forth about the need to use AI on any of this. I used it some on the scifi novel and I realized it just slowed me down. So, I don’t know. I think maybe I will be really selective about it going forward.

I hope to write a six novel series that will appeal to readers of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It’s set in a small town in Southside Virginia.

But I really do hope to begin the querying process for the thriller novel this spring. And, I think, I need to star to tinker with the other novels in the projected six-novel project. It sure would be nice to have huge chunks of those other novels done if I manage to sell the first novel in the series.

And I am WELL AWARE that I have a very peculiar project on my hands — I mean, how many people want to read about strange events in small Southern town over the course of 6 novels set over 25 years? It’s not like I’m writing “It” or something.

My version of Lisbeth Salander looks a lot like Corrie Yee.

But I have six novels gamed out in my mind and I want to see if I can pull it off. All the novels are really interesting and I have the ending of the last novel already thought out. It’s just — I’m not getting any younger.

If I don’t get something, anything done soon, lulz it’s all over –I’m just be 100 years old before anything is done.

But the reason why I like this six novel project is it gives me hope. Reach for the moon and you might just fall into the stars, as the old saying goes.

An ‘American Lisbeth Salander’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Now, let me be clear — all of this is just a dream. And I’m so old that it’s highly unlikely that what I want to have happen, will happen. As it’s going I’ll be very lucky to get *one* novel written and published before I croak, much less six novels that begin a series about an “American Lisbeth Salander.”

Lisbeth Salander.

It just takes a lot of time and six novels is a lot of work and words.

But the dream I have is — I want to show the audience why my “American Lisbeth Salander” is fucked up by showing in a series of books that depict about 25 years of her personal history the events that lead up to what would otherwise be the first two books in the series about her.

This happened in large part because Trump managed to lose in 2020. I had two novels (joined together by a cliffhanger) that I wanted to use as an allegory for the Trump era (Trumplandia, if you will) but he lost and so…I felt a bit forlorn.

Then I realized I had so much backstory about this character I loved that I might as well go backwards in time and show, exactly why she is so fucked up like Salander.

The heroine of many of the novels in the six novel series I plan is older than Lisbeth Salander and has a sleeve tattoo like Megan Fox does here.

I have a vague idea of making sure that my heroine is in the same universe as Lisbeth Salander so, I don’t know, maybe if things went great there might be a crossover at some point? That would be pretty sweet.

My heroine is, if I have the ages in my head right, a bit younger than Salander is supposed to be. But she’s a very, very, very different person other than how fucked up she is for reasons that the reader will be intimately acquainted with by the time she really appears and becomes front and center in the series.

I think, ultimately, my “American Lisbeth Salander” will kinda sorta look like Corrie Yee in my mind. Maybe. Not a perfect 1-to-1. But sorta.

I think what I need to do is start to work on the other novels in the series, too, so that might speed things up some. There is one book that if had any resoruces at all I would write but, alas, I just don’t think it’s going to be possible. So, I think it’s going to be six ~100,000 word novels in the same universe that I will have an open ending so we can expect more from my heroine.

It’s all a lot of fun.

And I would be about to query at this point, but for the fact that the third draft was a lot more “spicy” than it should have been and my readers balked flat out reading it after a point. So, back to the drawing board. Now, I think I won’t query this novel until the spring — that’s the goal, at least.

Well, The Summer Webstat Kookiness Is Out In Force

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Corrie Yee

So far, about three weird things have happened in my Webstats this summer. One was when someone from Harrisburg, PA popped up just a few minutes after the Graze.

The Graze

Then, someone was interested in my writing about how Corrie Yee has the “phenotype” of the heroine of one of the novels I’m writing. Now, today, someone is interested in my writing about “hot lesbian” Shannon Beveridge.

Fletcher and Shannon Beveridge

That last one makes me just shrug and say, “Meh.” I don’t care about hot lesbian. So what. I like to joke around. You do you, ladies. I only even mentioned she was a hot lesbian because I would probably foolishly fall in love with her AND on a macro basis it’s interesting that so many hot chicks are obviously and definitely not interested in men whatsoever.

Anyway. I just hope I don’t somehow get “canceled” for any of this. Leave me alone.

Don’t Know If I Should Be Alarmed Or Excited By This One

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I have been getting some pings about my belief that Corrie Yee has the “phenotype” of the heroine of my as-yet-unfinished and unpublished novel. One of those pings was clearly from — potentially — her modeling agency. Or something like that. A talent agency, maybe?

Corrie Yee.

Well, I don’t know what to make of that.

It could be bad news — these pings are from people who think I’m a stalker of some sort. It could be good news — people who are really interested in the novel (the third draft is done) and might help me get it published as-is. Or it could be sinister news — these people are, I don’t know, going to try to “steal” my idea in some way so all my work will be for naught?

I don’t know what to say. It could be any of those things. Or a mixture of all those things. But as I keep saying, I’m harmless. I just want to finish a novel — and get it published traditionally — before I croak.

Back In The Saddle Again

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

After a bit of self-doubt recently, I’m again working hard on the third draft of this novel. I have printed out the first half of the second act and I hope to get through it pretty quickly.

Believe.

I still have a fair deal of writing and rewriting to do, but I’m confident that I will get to the midpoint of the novel a lot quicker than I had thought. What really keeps me going is not only what an interesting story I’ve come up with, but how the novel tells a cogent, coherent story.

It’s not at all the story I had expected to tell when I started this journey several years ago, but it’s A Story, which is all that matters.

And I’m aware that the story is “racy” at times. And, yet, I don’t think there’s anything about the story I can’t finesse through editing. But just introducing the idea of my heroine owning a strip club introduces an element of “raciness” that I just can’t avoid.

My heroine has the same phenotype as Corrie Yee.

There’s not much point in introducing such a unique element to the story without leaning into it and exploring as many weird angles as possible. I am also very aware that if I magically manage to successfully pitch this novel that the “part-time sex worker” angle of things is all anyone will want to talk about, especially in marketing of the novel.

And that element of the novel might make the “woke cancel culture mob” very, very angry with me. Of course, if I was an undocumented trans woman, they would praise me for how I was showing women using their sexuality in an empowering manner. I just can’t win. I can’t help who I am and I try my best to be as empthetic as possible to the female experience.

But I’m a smelly CIS white male — and a middle aged one at that! — so I should just twiddle my thumbs in bed and stare at the ceiling until I drop dead.

Lulz.

Anyway. I hope to zoom through the first half of the second act and reach the midpoint of the novel pretty soon.