by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I am AGAIN beginning to make my way through the second draft of the novel. I STILL aim to wrap this process up no later than the end of spring. But I really need to stop being such a fucking perfectionist.
I have to realize that some of the issues with this thing won’t be addressed by me, but, rather Beta Readers and maybe a professional editor I might hire. But the clock is ticking.
If I don’t stop fucking around, it will be next year before I start the beta reader process and with the looming Fourth Turning approaching in late 2024, early 2025, I don’t want to do all this work with the novel only to it all come crashing down because we have a civil war.
Anyway. I need to be methodical about this process, but I can’t just spend months making sure that the beginning of the novel is absolutely right. I have to allow myself to “give up” and just get something, anything done that completes my vision for this novel and the story I hope to tell.
That’s the dream, at least.
I still hope to wrap this second draft up by no later than the end of spring in June.
