by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
My life is still turbulent to the point that I’m struggling to get any writing done. But here’s where things stand: I am at the beginning of the second act in one novel and I’m just beginning a new scifi novel.
The scifi novel is…problematic because I’ve been using AI to speed up the writing process. But I refuse to write the whole thing using AI, so I’m going to sit down and use what AI has written as a guide for scene summaries. That seems to be the best way to go about things. That way, I kind of get the best of both worlds — I can speed up the process of writing the novel while still keeping it grounded in my own writing style and abilities.
My nightmare is I get lazy and write an entire novel using AI and, lulz, I have to defend the fact that I used the AI to rewrite what I wrote. I’m just not going to do that. Ever.
Meanwhile, the other novel is a real struggle. I have two thirds of a novel to rewrite and I’ve been struggling to figure out how to do it. I just have to hunker down and be prepared for it to be as late as spring before I can finish anything.
I have to be prepared to be nearly 60 before I’m a published author. That is very discouraging. But if the Singularity comes I suppose I might be able to live a lot longer and as such it won’t be as big a deal that I try to publish a novel as a person who would be considered nearly elderly in the Before Times.
Anyway, I have to buckle down. I can’t keep drifting towards my goal. That’s what got me in this predicament to begin with.
