by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m just about to wrap up writing the latest draft of the novel. I’ve finished the expanded scene summaries for the last few scenes and now I just have to write the scenes out.
I even know how the novel ends, at the moment at least.
One big structural issue is this novel is kind of janky when it comes to tone. It doesn’t always live up to being a “dramedy.” Don’t quite know what I’m going to do about that particular problem.
But I am well on my way to reading the novel all the way through and editing it on a macro basis. I may endup reading the novel all the way through several times for several different reasons.
I still — STILL — need to read the “comp” novel Annie Bot. But I don’t wanna. I’m afraid my own writing will suck so bad in comparison that I will feel bad and get discouraged on my own writing.
And, yet, I absolutely have to read the damn thing.
But I am, in general, pleased with where things stand. I hope to wrap up this draft of the novel in a few weeks, maybe? If I’m lucky? I’m so erratic when it comes to writing that sometimes I think I have everything sorted out, only to spend two weeks staring out into space, doing nothing.
