by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
My goal every day is to write at least three scenes every day on this scifi dramedy novel I’m working on. But I’m so fucking moody that, as always, I just sort of…drift…towards my goal.
It’s very annoying. I need to actually buckle down and get some work done. I need to realize that this idyllic situation I find myself in at the moment is going to wrap up pretty soon.
The entire context of my life is going to change pretty soon and I honestly don’t quite know what I’m going to do. It’s with that context that I really have to be fucking more careful when it comes to putting all my eggs in the basket of thinking this novel is going to solve all my fucking problems.
It’s just not.
Getting the type of success I need to live the life I want is so fucking rare with any novel — especially for a first novel novelist — that, I don’t know what to tell you. I’ve decided that even though I’m old as fuck (in publishing terms) that I’m going to keep working on novels no matter what.
I really enjoy the process.
