by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m feeling pretty good about the state of this first draft at the moment. I just about to reach the denouncement of the story and once I do that, I will have just a few more scenes to write before I finish up.
Then, once I am done, I’m going to distract myself for a few weeks. Then, with fresh eyes, I’m going to read the whole first draft. THEN I’m going to futz with the outline some before I sit down and rewrite the whole thing and as such, produce the second (Beta) draft.
That’s the plan, at least.
A whole lot of things could go wrong, but all systems are go at the moment for me to be in a position to query this novel as part of the autumn 2023 querying season. That’s the dream.
It would help a great deal, of course, if I had a Reader. Or if I could prove myself worthy to literary types who might allow me to pay them so I could take things to the next level. I may try to save up the money necessary to get an editor of some sort of the beta draft so I can make the story as good as possible before I query.
At a minimum, I feel safe in believing I at least won’t embarrass myself. I have a huge amount of work to still do, but if I can just meet the metric of not embarrassing myself, I’ll be quite content.
