by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
As I keep saying, there is no revealed truth as to how to write anything, be it a novel or a screenplay. And, yet, that doesn’t stop people from bombarding me with this or that thing that they assume is absolutely the case for every writer, no matter what.
I saw a Tik-Tok recently where someone believed “every” novelist or screenwriter had scenes they skipped over because they “didn’t want to write them.” Well, jokes on you, I don’t have that problem — at least not to date — because I just get drunk and plow ahead.
I had some “spicy” scenes I really didn’t want to write, but instead of writing around them, I went straight through, even though I had to be wasted to do it. I’m working on the second draft now, so hopefully, I won’t have the same problem when I get to those scenes again.
At least, that’s the hope.
Nothing is for sure until it’s done, but I am having a lot of fun reworking the outline of this novel in the second draft. I’m hopeful that the second draft will be significantly better, more cohesive than the first draft.
