Using Mythology in Current Day Writing
Have you ever taken a writing class? I have, I’ve taken
several, and besides the course’s where they give me writing prompts and
critique’s, and grammar help. There always seems to be a prevailing tone that
comes from the. “Write what you know?” if you are an author, or an author want
to be, you’ve heard this phrase. Now I’m a
paranormal/sci-fi/fantasy/urban-fantasy author. And I like to think I’ve been
around the block a couple of times but to be honest I haven’t run into many
vampires, werewolves, reapers, or trackers, or anything else all that
paranormal/sci-fi/fantasy. Although a couple of my past bosses could have
passed for dragons, but that’s a different blog post.
Anyway… what I’m getting at is writing what I know would
probably bore my readers to tears. And it certainly wouldn’t sell any books. So
that little bit of advice…honestly left me sitting on my hands for my twenties
and most of my thirties. Then I realized
something. Write what you know? Is relative.
When writing fiction you need to build a story on some type
of foundation. That is where for me writing from Mythology comes in. I like to
pull in an aspect of reality by threads of different types of Mythology.
How do I do this?
First of all what is Mythology? Mythology is defined as
collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or
cultural tradition. So really what is a myth? A myth is a tradition or a story
concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural phenomenon,
and typically involving supernatural beings or events. Can also be known as
folk tales or folklore, fables, and or lore. Broken down within regions and
tribes. This opens up so many different avenues for writers, because the threads for plots are limitless. The only
thing holding you back is your own imagination.
Mythology is by its own definition a collection of stories.
Taking those stories and dissecting them and then retelling them is the
ultimate in storytelling.
For my books I have taken several myths from Greek
Mythology, Atlantis Mythology, Biblical Mythology, and the storytelling and
mythology of Dante’s Inferno. The greatest part of being an author and a
storyteller is being able to combine the mythologies and stories to fit around
my characters and imagination. I believe that is the muse of the modern day
paranormal/sci-fi/fantasy author.
So when I am told: “Write what you know.” I go with in and
say. “What if?” and “How about?” and “Maybe if.” Because it’s not always about
what you know, sometimes it’s about what you make-be-leave.
Reaper Mine
A Reaper Novel
Christie Palmer
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Jinx Fantasy Fiction
Date of Publication: 08/15/2015
ISBN: 978-0-988557-5-4
ASIN: B010QZIH5S
Number of pages: 241
Word Count: 92615
Cover Artist: Jaycee De Lorenzo
Book Description:
A war is brewing; the Tribunal wants to possess her. And one Reaper will give his soul to love her.
Victor is the Reaper over Violence he doesn’t do warm and fuzzy. He definitely doesn’t do damsel in distress. But apparently Dante didn’t get that memo. And Elle was most defiantly a damsel in distress.
Now he only needs to can keep her alive long enough to find out who wants to kill her? And why the hell did the Tribunal want her so badly?
She was a demi-goddess. A cursed demi-goddess, who had accidently bound her soul to the Reaper over Violence in order to save her butt from a Freak trying to kill her in a graveyard.
Elle was having a really bad day.
Excerpt:
He had almost lost her today and something deep in his chest had broken lose at the thought of losing her, and he just needed to feel her close to him. He would be damned straight to hell itself before he walked away from her right now.
So he kissed her, he wrapped his arms around her slippery body molding her against him under the pounding hot spray of water. Slanting her full lips over his, pressing them open he sank his tongue into her mouth to tangle with hers. She moaned into his mouth and wrapped her arms around his neck, making it easier to sink further into the kiss.
Victor lost himself in the kiss. The feel of the woman in her arms, full breasts pressed against him. And he grew light headed with desire; he broke the kiss to drag air into his starved lungs.
She tasted like warm sunshine, and the second he could breathe, he dipped his lips back to hers. Elle moaned into his mouth and Victor was lost, he thrust his tongue deep into her mouth, rubbing against her and drawing her tongue into his mouth he sucked on it. Drawing her unique taste and flavor into his mouth. Memorizing her, gods he couldn’t get her taste deep enough into him. She made the most amazing sounds as he drifted from her mouth to the side of her neck. Elle burrowed into him resting her head against his chest, he thanked the gods he had left his boxer briefs on. As he tried to control the urge to press her against the shower wall and take her.
“Elle.” Her name came out more as a moan.
About the Author:
Christie was born and raised in a suburb of Salt Lake City, Ut. She lives less than a mile from the home she grew up in. World traveler she is not. But what she lacked in travel she more than made up for in her imagination. Within her vivid imagination she has traveled the world over as well as different worlds and different times.
She works a full time day job to pay the bills but looses herself in books and her writing whenever possible.
She is a loving mother of two wonderful children that she admits she is obsessed with. She has been married for 18 years to a very tolerant man that is grounded in reality in order for her to fly to the heights of her own imagination.
She started writing when she was a teenager after reading a book that she didn't like the ending too. Took a hiatus to raise her wonderful children but has dedicated herself to becoming a published writer for the last several years
My Website: www.christiepalmerauthor.com
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