by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’ve been zoning out for about a week now when it comes to my writing. I just haven’t been in the mood, primarily because I’m rewriting some scenes that I believe, in general, are good enough.
Naomi Scott as Union Pang, the heroine of my novel?
But I want to go for “good enough” to “great” so I’m rewriting them.
The novel is pretty interesting, all things considered, even if the one relative that I use as a “reader” couldn’t read the last version of it because it was “too spicy.” He had a point and I moped for about a year because of it.
But that wasn’t all that was wrong with it — the stakes of the novel just weren’t that high. The novel, at it’s heart, was a character study that simply established the universe for the other five novels in the project.
NOW, however, the stakes are a lot higher — there’s a murder mystery to be solved.
And, what’s more, an interesting dynamic between two women is established that will have a pay off in the fourth novel. (I’ve compressed the planned six novels down to four.)
Anyway, tomorrow afternoon (as I write this) I hope to really get back into working on the novel. I may even tinker around with the subsequent novels, as well, since I have some sense of what the first novel is ultimately going to be like.
