by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
If Hollywood is any indication, we’re zooming towards a situation where someone writes a screenplay that steals a creative march on me. That, or I sell this novel and it hits the zeitgeist in just the right way and is a big success.
I keep seeing promos for movies that keep edging closer and closer to the premise of my novel and it’s making me a little nervous.
And, yet, I just have to accept that it’s really possible that my fear is going to come true and everyone will just roll their eyes and say, my novel is “just like that popular movie” even though I wrote my novel first.
That just comes with the territory of being a creative person.
And I do have a new novel idea — a comedy — that I may use to shoehorn myself back into writing on a regular basis. I’ve had some real trouble getting back into the writing groove since my novel is done. It’s kind of like creative post-partum depression.
But my need to create is slowly roaring back. So, as such, I suppose I will get back to writing pretty quick.
