by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I know a guy who writes plays all the time and also novels and he has YET to sell a novel after years of trying. This gives me pause for thought because he’s a journalist who is a far better writer than I am.
And, yet, I have to be comfortable with the right to fail in a rather spectacular fashion. And the further I get into querying then that is experience that maybe I can use that to get a little further in the next attempt.
Anyway. I still am struggling with the overall structure of the novel. I keep being tempted to lop off a huge chunk of the first act, and, yet, there is value in what I depict in the first act.
I just don’t know.
I’m going to continue to wallow in the first part of the second act in an effort to tighten the novel up in some way. But I guess the trigger to cutting a lot will be when I finish the novel and it turns out to be 160,000 words.
If it is that long then I definitely will start to lop off words here and there to see if I can get closer to 100,000 words.
