by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
As expected, my mental log jam broke when it came to the “fun and games” portion of this novel. I’m not completely out of the woods yet, but I feel a lot better about cruising into the “bad guys closing in” part of the novel without too much of a delay.
And, much to my surprise, I fixed the problems I was facing by making the novel far more spicy than I originally expected it to be. I have figured out a way for something really interesting to happen to my heroine that is not only sexxy, but definitely progresses the plot.
It’s rather amusing that for someone as self-conscious about being a CIS white male writing about a woman’s life from a female point of view despite being a smelly boy…I keep wallowing in the very things that are most likely to the “woke cancel culture mob” angry that I’m writing it.
But I’m not writing a YA novel and modern mystery-thriller audiences expect a certain amount of spiciness in such novels. I’m going to try to be as methodical and conservative in my depiction of that spiciness, but now I’ve figured out a way to do it in the context of the overall plot I’ve come up with.
I’m slowly beginning to feel a lot more confident that I’m within shouting distance of writing a novel that at least, at a minimum, won’t embarrass me and I might even get published — hopefully before I get so old that my age is all anyone wants to talk about.
