How to Write a Novel About Your Role at the Pool

I was writing it over a period of time I think I started writing the short stories well while I was shopping my first novel because I don't know this novel doesn't sound like I got you know like I need to have something else that's getting me excited and keeping me going so I sat with this for a really long time. Then I got serious about it after my second book was published but I was still in that world and the pandemic hadn't hit which I think kind of made a lot of people rethink you know everythingSo over time  I started to definitely get like more perspective and then after it was sold they were working on it, but wasn't until I was copy