by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Now that I have finished “a draft” to work with, I have to sit down and start to read it so I can get a better sense of what I have to work with. What I want to do is pause at every scene that clearly needs to be rewritten so I can rewrite it.
But, what I’m going to do instead is read the text of the novel all the way through and only lightly edit it until the end. THEN, once THAT’s DONE, I’m going to go through and do structural work on the novel, maybe lengthening scenes here and there as necessary.
This is going to be really hard for me because what I want to do is rewrite as much as necessary now. But I need to wait. Also, I need to read my novel’s “comp” novel “Annie Bot” and maybe a few other books as well. And, also, watch some movies.
I’m started to watch “Blue Moon,” which is very much like the movies I used to watch in the 1990s with my ex-girlfriend, but…nothing is happening at the moment and it’s a struggle. It’s just a guy at a bar giving us exposition about the universe so we understand context.
This is not at all what I expected.
And, to top things off, I hope to watch the Project Hail Mary movie at some point in the next few days. That was a really good book and I have gotten a lot of inspiration from it writing my own.
