by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
As I plow through this latest draft of the novel and rewrite more and more scenes completely, the overall effect is pretty good. As I keep saying, I’m probably going to read this thing one last time after this just for some last-minute editing before I hand it over to beta readers.
Of course, finding beta readers willing to simply do what I need them to do — read the novel — may be so difficult that I just trust my gut and go straight into querying. One fear I have is my beta readers will, for various reasons, think the novel is too “spicy” and get turned off, even though in general the novel is actually pretty good.
Just today, I realized there were some ways to make the novel a little bit more deep. I don’t know if I’ll be able to add those elements, though. But it is something to think about.
But, in general, I hope to keep going onward and up ward. I really do hope to wrap this process up in time to query the novel by Sept. 1st. I am very, very weary of querying, since it will be my first time doing it.
Once I wrap this novel up and start querying, that is when I can start working on the next novel, even though I’m probably a little too old to creatively do anything but just stare out into space and feel bad about how much time I squandered thinking about a failed expat magazine in Seoul.
