by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I have a few more scenes to write with this scifi dramedy I’m working on before I take things to the next level: reading it all the way through.
Once THAT is done, then I will get more into the nitty-gritty of “color correction” so there is some consistency of tone to it all.
I’m hoping to do something different than previous times I’ve gotten to this point when things seemed to fall apart for various reasons. I really need to keep this draft to myself as long as possible before giving it to anyone to read.
It definitely looks as though I’m on track to start querying no later than Sept 1st. I might actually wrap things up a few months before then — maybe — but as I understand it, there are two “seasons” for querying: spring and fall. So, once everyone is done with their summer vacations, I suppose I can start to query.
Now, obviously, I have to prepare myself for a catastrophic disaster, failure. In the sense that any number of things could go wrong, from be being simply too old, to me being to big of a kook, to the novel just sucking no matter what to…the list goes on.
But at least I will have tried. At least I will have experience something interesting and cool.
One thing I will need to do is start work on a new novel while I query. And, yet, I also know I’m getting up their in age and while it will be a distraction to write a new novel, I have to accept that if I don’t sell this first novel that the next novel is probably just for fun no matter what.
I just will be too fucking old to be a first-time traditionally published author.
