by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Oh boy. I’m making my way through the text of this scifi dramedy I’ve been working on for some time now and I find myself very moody, as usual, when it comes to the actual writing.
I’m in the twilight of this rather great situation I find myself in when it comes to writing a novel and here I am spending way too much time just daydreaming. I need to stop spinning my wheels and actually get some work done.
I say that in the context of knowing I’m going to wake up and everything will be changed. I won’t have near as much time to write and the whole context will be totally different to the point that everyhting will suck.
And all of this is happening in the context of me really, really needing to be careful with my expectations about what will happen once I start to query this novel. Successfully querying a novel — especially for someone like me — is literally like winning the fucking lottery.
So, I really need to go into the whole querying situation with my eyes open. I can’t have really high expectations like I have in the past with the first novel I actually finished. The key issue is this novel is really, really spicy and that could be a huge turn off to the typical liberal white woman who is, in my imagination, your average literary agent.
But the whole point is to just see how far in this process I can get before it’s clear that I need to start working intently on my other scifi novel I have rolling around in my mind. Only time will tell, as they say.
