by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
So. I’ve pretty much finished the first chapter. Almost. At least to the point that I feel comfortable showing it to people who, of course, will inevitably never get back to me about what think think about it.
Anyway, it’s now the second chapter that I’m having trouble with. I understand what has to be done, but the actual process of doing it is a real pain in the butt. I have juggle a lot of different things in my mind because I have more than on POV within a chapter.
This is something turns off a lot of readers, but people read Stieg Larsson’s work and he did that, so fuck those people. Just don’t read the fucking novel, then. Those kind of quibbles really annoy me because the whole point of some elements of the way I’ve structured the novel is to draw in people who *did* like — or could at least tolerate — how Larsson went back and forth between different POVS within a chapter.
I just need to clear my mind and write some scene summaries before I actually do some writing. I hope to zoom through the rest of the first act after wrapping up the first act, then in the second act….oh boy, do I have a lot of writing and rewriting to do.
