Now that I'm basically finished with Trinidad, I've started thinking about what other books I could write. The horror story is one, but I have problems with writing it. I'm not sure I want to write something so blatantly fantastic. I am more interested in taking realistic stories and revealing what is mysterious about the world through them. I think I'd like to take on the sea again.
The origin of Trinidad was like this: take a classic sea story and place it within a modern setting. The story I chose was The Stowaway.
I think I would like to do the same thing again for another type of story, this time The Mutiny. I have only a vague idea for the story, but I think I have a setting.
In Arctic waters, they have vessels called icebreakers whose job is to clear frozen waterways in rivers and the sea. I would love to set a story there, a story about mutiny in a sea of ice. Unfortunately I don't have any first hand experience with working on an icebreaker. But I like the atmosphere it conjures in my mind very much.
Story about a captain who abuses the crew, but is considered a great, feared leader. In the story a deck hand is killed in a work accident, and the captain changes. He becomes kind-hearted, but this leads to the crew rising up in mutiny and taking the command from him. The head mutineer is the brother of the deck hand who was killed. He blames the captain for it, and for this reason leads the uprising. They throw the captain overboard onto the ice plains. During the mutiny the vessel catches on fire. As they try to put it out, the captain watches the boat sail away. He says a prayer for the burning vessel, and that's how the story ends.
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