Shut up about the novel, already!
I continue to make little tweaks to the novel, and I’m pleased with them, but I’m just putting off the fact that I need to make some major changes. I’m just not sure where to go next.
As I think I’ve said before, the novel has way too much exposition. There are too many cases where situations and relationships are explained ham-handedly instead of making themselves known through actions and dialogue. Maybe this novel is beyond my capabilities after all.
Don’t worry; this is just my day to think of the novel as junk. Tomorrow, it will be the greatest work of fiction since “Of Mice and Men.” Then, day after tomorrow, it will be junk again.
I used to always flatter myself that if I were to write something creative, I would be the type of Christian who could find success in the secular marketplace, with work that stands on its own artistic merit but reflects my Christian world view in very subtle and artistic ways. That’s why it’s so ironic that I’ve written what amounts to “Christian fiction,” in the genre sense. If I do sell it to a publisher, it’s something that will probably be sold only in Christian bookstores.
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