by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m currently cruising towards the end of the first act for my latest attempt to write this scifi dramedy novel. My biggest irritation at the moment is I really want to show the first few scenes to some people, and yet, no.
It’s kind of bad luck to show people what you’re working on before it’s beta-draft ready. I say this in the context of in the past whenever I’ve shown any of my work to people either I don’t really like what they have to say one way or another or the whole thing collapses after they’ve looked at it so their advice is moot.
Ugh.
But my goal at the current moment is to just finish the first act. Usually, the most problematic issues with filling out an outline comes with the transitions between acts. For some reason that’s when I’m most likely to realize I’ve made some horrible structural mistake and I have to start all over again.
Anyway.
I really need to stop drifting towards my goal. I really need to focus and see working on this novel as something akin to my job. Until, that is, I have to get a real job.
Which is a very real possibility because of fucking Trump.
But I still have a few months — I think — before my life will change so dramatically that that becomes a necessity. As such, I really need to put up or shut up. I need to shup and and write, as they say.
