by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The thing I’ve noticed about movies like Her, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind and Annie Hall is there really isn’t a villain. The story is about the complex nature modern romance.
That both makes writing this dramedy novel easier and more difficult. It’s easier because it’s more structurally simple — it’s about two people and the ups and downs of their relationship. Meanwhile, it becomes more complicated because I have to figure out how the two characters personalities interlock.
Anyway, I’m zooming through the first act of the first draft and I’m tentatively preparing the way to go into the first half of the second act called the “fun and games” part of the novel. Everything after the midpoint of the novel is very much up in the air.
At the moment, the second half of the novel veers into ideas about AI rights and consciousness in a way that I’m not sur I’m comfortable with. I really want this to be about two individuals romance, not some grand battle between people over AI rights.
But I still have time. I have a feeling I’m going to really change the second half of the novel and then REALLY change the everything when I sit down to write the second draft.
