As some of you probably know, I am well on my way writing my next book.😀

So, here is a 'little' post about (my) creative process.

I should soon be done with approximately 2/3 of my current manuscript, with the working title 'Dreams of Taliesyn.'

It will be a story in three acts, and if the third and final act will be of the same length as the first two, we will potentially end up with about 500-600 manuscript pages.

This number will be reduced somewhat after the editing proces is over, of course, but the story will undoubtedly be longer than 'This Savage Cold Star'.

Part of the reason for this is that there are three main characters in this story, versus the one that was in my first novel. Thus, there will be somewhat more to describe and explore.

'Taliesyn' is the name of a (fictional) mountain town, that is relatively isolated from the rest of the outside world. Our three main characters are drawn to Taliesyn for their own different reasons, while the town is consumed by its own conflicts. Without revealing too much, it will of course be inevitable for our protagonists not to be involved in these conflicts.😉

I think I have spoken of this before, but I have heard several authors talk about different 'author-types.'  One of the analogies that I like best, is George R.R. Martins description of 'architects' and 'gardeners.'

The former, the way I understand it, is the kind of writer that does all the prepatory work in advance; everything is well thought out and planned before they start writing (or building, if you will).

And then there are the gardeners. they know what kind of seed or grain they put into the ground. They know what kind of story they want to write. But after that there are many uncertainties and unknown factors in relation to how things will grow.

Most writers are probably a mixture of the two types, though there will be a tendency to be more like the one than the other. I would describe myself as much more of a gardener, than an architect. I enjoy reading books by both architect and gardener authors, and have learned a lot from both.

Sometimes, I wish I was more of an architect than i really am, as I often find myself stuck in the narrative, and sometimes have to rewrite seeveral parts of the story, because it developed in a different direction that I thought it would go.😅

On the other hand, there are also many wonderful surprises when you are a gardener,  exactly because you do not always know beforehand how the narrative develops.

As I mentioned above, I am almost done with the second act of the manuscript, to what will hopefully become my next novel, Dreams of Taliesyn. And even now, with the third act staring me in the eyes, that are many things that are still unknown and uncertain to me. There are certainly quite a few of the events that are going to happen in the third act that I know of, sure. I also know which characters are most likely going to meet, and how those situations are (probably) going to develop. And I am quite certain in which direction the (main) characters are heading, in the third act. But I definitely do not know everything.😀

But again, that is exactly what can be so exciting being a gardener. I am at least at excited as the reader (hopefully) will be, in relation to what is going to happen on the next page.

And, if that excitement is the price for the frustration that sometimes follows it, well, then so be it. ☺️