by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I don’t have any problem with manuscript consultants, but their belief that I’m a drunk crank that they won’t work with definitely generates a lot of angst for me. It causes me to reflect on how people who don’t know me perceive me. But it’s one of those things that I just can’t do anything about.
So, here I am chomping at the bit to start the third draft of my first novel and I have five more novels I want to work on, but I’m worried that snooty manuscript consultants will laugh at me if I offer to pay them to help me figure out how to write the novels.
All of this is really weird to me because you would think that manuscript consultants would be amenable to people who are “different” who want to write a novel. But it definitely seems this is not the case. Once they look at my Twitter account they ghost me — they think I’m too big a kook to work with.
Anyway, I’m going to keep chugging along. I really want to start writing the Third Draft of the first novel in this series, but I also really want to start development on the other five novels in this project.
It will be interesting to see what happens.
