by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The biggest issue with this novel right now is my storytelling ability continues to improve such that I continue to see massive problems with the story after I think I’ve locked it all down.
So the whole edifice — or specifically the first few chapters — collapse and I feel forced to start all over again. This happens about once a month now. It used to happen once or twice a day when I was more into development. But things continue to move along pretty fast.
I guess the thing that bothers me the most is I am doing all of this in a vacuum so I just don’t know how much of all this hard work is me spinning my wheels because of undue perfectionism and how much of it is actually productive.
Anyway.
Everything in the first chapter fell apart AGAIN this evening and it’s been a struggle to stich things back together. My life would be so much better if I had a wife or a girlfriend willing to read my stuff, is all I gotta say. I’m extremely envious of authors who have someone — anyone — in their life willing to read their shit over and over and over and over and over again until they get it right.
