The past few weekends I’ve managed to write a chapter each weekend. Now I’ve written eight and I reckon I’m a third of the way through the story. I’ve written 16,000 words and counting.
It’s amazing (or scary) how I don’t remember what I wrote previously. I have to constantly refer back to my previous books to see if my character had hair (nope, he was bald) or how I described a certain thing, like the Caves or the obelisk in the Shady Desert.
Even though I’ve mapped out the story arcs even better than I had for my other two books, it still takes ages to write, because I have to work out the detail. How exactly will Freya and Willow convince Alex to join the Adelphi? Why would Thyst end up in the Level One well?
By the way, if you have any suggestions, I’d be happy to hear them!
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Published by Sharon Manssen
A fantasy fan since being read 'The Hobbit' by her father at the fireside at the age of six, she has been an avid bookworm her entire life. When the idea for her current trilogy popped into her head, there was never any doubt that it would be in the fantasy genre. Unfortunately, real life gets in the way, and writing has to fit around her full-time job at a global engineering consultancy and family life (husband and two young adult children). It took ten years to pen her first book, Medar, which was a finalist for the Tom Fitzgibbon Award in 2015 and was published in 2017. Her second book, Tyrelia was nominated in the Young Adult Fiction category in the 2019 Sir Julius Vogel Awards. Her third book, Golden City, is due out in 2021.
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