by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It’s time for me to put up or shut up about writing a new novel. I can’t just mope forever, however much I want to. I have three — at least — solid novel ideas a half a dozen solid short story ideas.
I need to just do it. I need to confront the cold, hard fact that the novel I wrote — which I think is pretty good — is just not good enough to query. That is very painful.
But that, combined with it taking me a while to figure out how to properly include AI into my workflow, causes me to want to put aside my first (completed) novel and “delve” (as LLMs always say) into a new adventure.
It’s just a lot more difficult than I would prefer to confront that failure before moving on. I really thought I had a chance of querying the novel I finished. And, yet, everyone who has actually given me a critical review of it instead of being polite has panned it.
Anyway. Onward and upward, I suppose.
