by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
After a great deal of deliberation and screw ups, I think I *may* have finally figured out a smooth first three chapters of this novel. It’s taken me a lot longer than I would like, but it’s done.
Now, I’m going to reread the “finished” chapters then see if I can finish up the first act again before I get back into the second act where I’m going to have to do a huge amount of rewriting. I have already do a lot of futzing with the outline of the “fun and games” part of the novel (the first half of the second act.)
But my goal of just finishing something, anything and then querying it remains. I don’t know how long I’m willing to stew in my juices when it comes to querying, but I do know that at some point I’m going to start to work on a new novel, even while I’m waiting for querying to pan or not pan out.
Querying is going to be a whole new era for me. I really will have no idea what I’m doing and I know I’m bound to make, many, many, MANY mistakes. But, maybe in making so many mistakes I’ll know how to do it right the next go round.
I am a little uneasy that my first novel is a mystery-thriller while most of the other novels I have rolling around in my mind are just Andy Weir-like scifi.
