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Posts Tagged ‘muse’

Warning – Muse on Vacation

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

I’m heavy into For the Love of Hades first round edits. The good news, I still love Hades and Persephone’s story. The bad news, my muse us being decidedly quiet.

I know edits are edits, we’re not talking about tons of rewrites. But there are places where my wonderful, fantastic, genius editor has tagged a word or passage without leaving a comment. This is her way of telling me something doesn’t jive, while still giving me the creative freedom to fix it. And, if I haven’t mentioned it before I shall mention it now, I LOVE my editor for her faith in and understanding of my writing. She gets my stories, my prose, my vibe – whatever. Bottom line, I truly adore her.

When my Muse is behaving and full of things to say, this is fun. I get to jump back into the character’s heads, revisit, tweak, and explore. Right now, not so much. I suspect my Muse has taken an emergency vacation – to recharge my inner writing mojo.

Here’s where I think she’s gone:

Gardens of Olympuswith a book, a latte, and no worries…

 

I know this isn’t a problem for writer’s only. When you need a break, a mental health day/weekend/week, escape and/or ‘me time’ what do you do and where do you go?

 

I’d like to announce that Monday the 16th I will be hosting the wonderful Kate Evangelista’s Taste book trailer reveal. AND I will be sharing the cover for Medusa, A Love Story. So you could say Monday will be a very BIG day on the ol’ blog. Hope you’ll plan on dropping by!!! 

Aphrodite – Goddess of Love and Beauty

Monday, December 19th, 2011

After pouring over myth book and myth book, building a several page character bio and digging for her motivation – this is what I know about my Aphrodite.

She’s beautiful, but vulnerable. Yes, she can be manipulative but it’s her last resort. She’s hungry for love – feels it deeply, devoted to lovers, and faithful to those that believe in the emotion. She sees beauty in all things, not only those things that are visually beautiful. She’s generous and giving. She’s not too young, or too old. And she’s a mother – several times over. 

She’s woman.

I couldn’t shake the painting of Aphrodite Rising as my inspiration…

Initially I was going with Robin Wright Penn. She’s so beautiful.

But, she seems a little too fragile. Something I don’t think Aphrodite was.

 

But then Charity gave me the right answer! And it was was like, duh, of course…

 

Monica Belluci fits perfectly.

But, thank you for these wonderful suggestions: Halle Berry, Angeline Jolie, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Salma Hayek, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Robin Wright Penn and Christina Hendricks. All of them were totally valid.

What do you think?