by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I have a structural problem with this novel that I don’t know what to do about. I now have a strong first act, and, yet, the case could be made that it takes too damn long to get to something happening.
So, my goal now is to reread the first half of the second act and see about how I can rewrite or edit it to be better. I think what I’m going to do is go all the way through the novel and if it’s just too long, THEN I will lop off a big chunk of the first act of the novel and restructure the rest of it.
But given the weird structure of The Girl Who Played With Fire, it’s not impossible for a unconventional structure to be a success.
Yet I continue to be uneasy about word count. I continue to worry that maybe this novel is just too long and I’m really going to have to tighten things up some.
