by Shelt Garner
@shetgarner
The novel I’m working on at a nice clip is a mixture of the movies Her, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Annie Hall. And maybe, in its own way, a bit of Ex Machina.
Now my fear is the general concept is so obvious, so much a part of the zeitgeist that someone is going to steal a creative march on me. There have been a number of thrillers written in the same vein as what I’m developing and writing, but none of them that have been melancholy romcoms.
Of course, you have to take all of this with a grain of salt — I worked on and wrote about a series of novels for a long time and nothing came of them, so this could just be more of the same. But things are really working out well — so far — with this project and so I’m hoping that by some point early next year I will have a second draft done.
Now, for various reasons, my life is going to go to hell in a handbasket at just about the same time, so…I don’t know. But it would be pretty cool to finish something, anything that I could be proud of and hand over to my family and a few beta readers without being embarrassed by all the sex in it.
But, we’ll see, I guess.
What I should do if someone steals a creative march on me is keep going because I know my, specific, story is so unique. And, yet, lulz. I know I’m going to piviot to something else if I feel someone else’s story is too close to mine.
