by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I am going through the new fused-together version of the novel at a pretty nice clip, rewriting scenes as necessary. I should be rewriting the whole thing, but some of the old scenes are just too good and I can’t bring myself to re-invent the wheel.
At the moment, I’m still stuck in the first act, but soon I will be officially in the second act and that’s when things probably will slow done considerably. There’s just too much to re-write.
But I’m overall pretty pleased with the new direction the novel is taking. And I’ve managed to cut the number of novels down from a proposed six to now a proposed four. And I did it by just adding a few hundred words here and there explaining something as different than what I first imagined.
The real world will be when I complete this draft and have to go through and bevel off all the edges by making everything consistent. Right now, it’s pretty easy to move things around because each scene is almost independent of all the other scenes.
But once I officially lock everything down, I’m going to have to give the novel a level of flow that it doesn’t have at the moment.
