by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
In another instance of Tik-Tok knowing a little bit too much about me, I got pushed a video of a female comic who essentially nailed my novel ideal down exactly and made fun of it.
This has rattled my cage on more than one level.
One issue is I really need to confront head on the criticisms of the comic as I write the novel, at least for own peace of mind. I know she was just joking around, but there was a serious undertone to the humor. I need to buckle down and really confront head on her observations in the text of the novel.
And, yet, I have to keep going. This is a really good idea and it’s just a matter of going through and writing the thing out. I have — with the help of Claude LLM — a general sense of the novel’s flow via an outline I just have to fill out.
It is going to be interesting to see how long it takes me to do that. I still would like to wrap this thing up by late spring 2026, but…I don’t know. I can’t afford to have the novel collapse in on me too many more times.
