by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m officially in the last chapter of this draft of the novel. I have just a few more scenes before I finish this draft and can piviot to editing it on a macro basis by going through and reading it all the way through.
You’re SUPPOSED to pause for a month when doing such things, but I just don’t have the time. My life is on the cusp of being pretty turbulent for a variety of reasons out of my control and as such, lulz, I need to hurry up.
And so, I am going to hopefully wrap this draft up then get down to work to reading the entire novel. I don’t quite know what I will do once I finish that. I guess I will do some structural work before I go through and edit each individual scene.
In the past, I’ve had some trouble reading scene of the novel without breezing through them. But I do need to actually sit down and read the scenes carefully to understand how to make them better.
I continue to worry about what is going to happen on the due diligence front when I actually start to query. I’m such a kook — and always have been — that I’m nervous that that, in itself, will doom any chances I have to ever get published.
But I can’t think like that. I need to have hope in myself.
