by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It’s June 1st — rabbit, rabbit — and I’ve decided to buckle down and get some work done. There was a moment there after wrapping up A Version of my novel where I kind of locked up and…grieved. For a few days there, I had a from of creative post-partum depression.
But I’ve recovered at last and now I’m forging ahead.
I have a few things to address.
One is, I have to wrap up the “color correction” draft of the novel. This is going a lot faster than I expected — so far. And after this draft is done, I probably will sit down and actually read the thing all the way through and just edit a name or two and THEN get ready for the main event: beta readers and querying.
Another thing I want to do is start to work on a few short stories. I have a really good one that I’m working on that is flying by. Now, this is the point where the issue of why, all of a sudden, I’m willing to “lower” myself to writing short stories comes up.
Well, there are a few issues.
One issue is AI is really helping me with development. So, I can zoom through what might otherwise take months to do in a few days. Second, I finally have managed to squeeze out a novel of some sort that I’m proud of, so I have that out of my system for the time being.
I have another novel or two I’m thinking about working on soon, but probably that won’t happen until I officially start querying. Maybe. I still struggle with doing more than on thing creatively, but AI has helped a lot to facilitate just that.
