Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 256
March 9, 2019
allaboutmyths:
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why is it 2019 and we still don’t have a ship name for Persephone and Hades?? y’all are slackin
whispers softly Aidephone
alternatively: Aidore
I would second Aidore, but I know I will get you and me on board and nobody else.
March 8, 2019
violentwavesofemotion:
“You are a thousand flowers,
—you are a meadow full of them—” — Edna St....
“You are a thousand flowers,
—you are a meadow full of them—”— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “The Lamp and the Bell,” published c. 1921
The Good Counselor
Book Three in the Hades and Persephone series. Seventy years have passed since Elysion was created, and Persephone’s efforts to conceive a child with Hades have been in vain. But a secret rite on Samothrace might bend the Fates and give her all that they have dreamed of, or pave a path of untold suffering.
Author’s Note: Woohoo! The longest chapter to date! I hope you enjoyed it. I will be interviewed on a radio show called “Behind the Scenes” on Friday at 4:30pm PST if you want to tune in online. I’ll be discussing The Good Counselor and turning my series into a TV show
Chapter 4“Ready?”
Persephone clicked her teeth together. “I suppose so.”
“She did this on purpose,” Athena said. “On the very day that beast will be there…”
“You could avoid Poseidon, you know.” Her gateway through the ether twisted in a winding gyre of Phlegethon flame, and on the other side stood Olympus. “You don’t have to accompany me.”
“I know,” said Athena. “And I hope you don’t think that my ill temper is because of you. But she told me to bring you and what the Queen wants, the Queen gets. Father is always asking us to play nice with her. Much good it does any of us.”
Apologies if this has been asked hundreds of times already- but do you listen to any specific albums or playlists when writing, or searching for inspiration? Or do you know of any fan-created playlists for your series that you enjoy?
No worries! I don’t think I’ve touched on it much.
Most of the time when I write the best background noise is whatever is going on around me. Coffee shops used to be my go to before I had a baby.
But when I’m at home, I do listen to music, especially if I am invoking a certain mood. I created a playlist on 8Tracks, and my fans have, too.
I listen to mostly instrumental or instrumental heavy music when I write. Here’s a short list of albums that I listen to all the way through when I’m writing. Some of it is evocative of Hades and Persephone, and most of it is not, but all of it helps me keep writing.
“The Fountain” by Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet, and Mogwai
“Citizens of Glass” by Agnes Obel
“Melpomen: Ancient Greek Music” by Conrad Steinmann
“Within the Realm of a Dying Sun” by Dead Can Dance
“Anastasis” by Dead Can Dance
“Musique de la Grèce Antique” by Gregorio Paniagua
“Silk Road Journeys” by Yo Yo Ma
“Aion” by Dead Can Dance
“The Mirror Pool” by Lisa Gerard
“The Cell” by Howard Shore
“Seven Years in Tibet” by John Williams
“Cloud Atlas” by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimelk, and Reinhard Heil
I know there are more, but that’s a good start for me.
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Christian Dior models under the Caryatids of the Erechtheion temple on the north side of the Acropolis in Athens,Greece.(1951).
