by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Thankfully, virtually no one reads this blog, so I can continue to talk about working a novel without any shame. I’ve been writing way, way, way too long about working on a novel without anything of note to show for it. Though, I will point out that I do have a finished thriller novel done, it’s just not good enough to query.
Anyway.
I’m using AI to speed up the development of the first draft. I’ve figured out a way whereby I do all the writing and just using AI to guide development. I made a mistake in the past by letting AI write the first draft for me. This was a mistake for a number of reasons, one of them being it’s writing was so much better than mine I felt bad.
My biggest problem right now is how AI wants to be my hypeman. It tells me how great and wonderful my writing is, even though I know for a fact it sucks because it’s just the first draft.
But first drafts have to written so you can write the second draft and so on. I’m thinking I can probably wrap up this first draft much, much sooner than I might otherwise. I’m reluctant to give any sort of specific timeline, but…let’s just say sooner than otherwise.
Once the first draft is done, I’m going to really get into character. I really want this novel to be character driven. Now, obviously, if I was 25 years younger, I would just write a screenplay.
But I’m old and live in the wrong place. And did I mention I’m poor?
So, a novel it is.
And in about a year I’m going to query this novel. But so much could go wrong in my life between now and then that that just might not happen. And, yet, I need something to keep me dreaming.
