by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I am, brick by brick, building out my latest novel. There remain some pretty big issues — especially in the third act — but, in general, I feel I’m on pretty stable ground.
I continue to worry that the entire premise, on a meta basis, is going to come across as creepy to some people, given who I am writing it. I could totally see some Woke 1 people dismissing the whole thing as some sort of freaky personal fantasy or something.
I swear it’s not.
In fact, I was so busy developing the plot that the meta element of it didn’t even register until a few days ago. NOW, in hindsight, I can understand why it might be possible at least that some people might find the premise problematic.
And, yet, I also know that I could be overthinking things and no one, outside of a few squeaky wheel woke people, will object.
That’s what I hope happens. I really, really like this novel and I believe in it enough to spend the year or so necessary to finish it.
