Greek Geekery

You did it! You opened Pandora’s Box! You told EVERYONE you were writing a book! Now, how will you lord over your manuscript while Mounting the Olympian task?

Which of the 13 Greek Gods most resemble your writing world ?

Zeus

King of the Gods

You plan on weathering the storms of writing problems by throwing down lightning bolts of words and thundering at anyone who DARE stands in your way.

You take the manuscript bull by the horns and soar like an eagle until the scepter of publishing is firmly in grasp.

Hades

God of the Underworld

Your genre is the dead, almost dead, undead, or mostly dead. In fact, you regret not writing sooner! Blogging, writing, and tweeting is the 3-headed Cerberus you control.

Once at your keyboard your Cape of Invisibility shields you from earthly distractions.

Hermes

Messenger of the God

Social media is your ticket to fame, the caduceus of algorithms & statistics your game.

You travel to conferences, trade beta reads, communicate with readers and writers. The winged sandals of social media help flex your athletic writing muscle.

Ares

God of War

Writing is your battlefield. With word spear and genre sword, you attack the chaos of your imaginative mind until victorious.

Moody and unpredictable, you attack characters and plot with creative violence.

Demeter

Goddess of the Harvest

Understanding a book’s life cycle, you value any grain of knowledge providing nourishment to your manuscript. You are confident in your ability to harvest theme, plot, and characters with cultivated growth.

Apollo

God of Music & Poetry

Your prose is lyrical, your plotting poetic. Surrounded by the Muses, you are often plagued with the idea of perfection, which often destroys your confidence and love affair with writing. With the laurel wreath of writing knowledge crowning your head you continue stroking the lyre of words in you heart.

Hera

Queen of the Gods

A bit of a peacock, you respect the marriage of genre and plot; the publishing empire; appreciate the advice of writing kings; and value the suffering while birthing a book.

You are prone to jealousy and revenge if you suspect a social media infidelity.

Hephaestus

God of Fire

You hammer out plot, using the genre tongs and conflict anvil in forging a creative masterpiece. Writing is your craft, the fire of imagination either creating or charring your volcanic word count.

Poseidon

God of Sea

You are flooded with inspiration, yet despite reigning over a sea of ideas, plotting earthquakes often cause a writing drought.

Strong-willed and proud, you stop horsin’ around to fish out the cause until you ride the tide of creativity once again.

Artemis

Goddess of the Hunt

Although a writing virgin, you eagerly enter the novel wilderness, hunting down the requirements of your genre.

Equipped with spears of blog links, your bow shoots true, striking the bear/bare truths of plotting and the deer/dear gift of prose.

Athena

Goddess of Wisdom

You know writing requires intelligence and skill. With knowledge shielding you from publishing myths and querying realities spearing your dreams, you apply battle-like strategy. Whether you make war or peace with your manuscript depends on your emotional armor.

Dionysus:

God of Wine

Words are your party! Chapters your orgy! Often drunk on your own word count, you are prone to plotting madness and character chaos.

Be it wine, coffee, or chocolate, you need a buzz to create, and love being surrounded by a posse of writers at conferences.

Aphrodite

Goddess of Love

Your desire for writing is matched only by your love of the beautifully crafted sentence, the sensual turn of phrase, and the nude truth in words. Wearing the magic girdle of imagination, you laugh at plotting problems and smile at naysayers, for you are, after all, the very embodiment of writing pleasure, be it first draft, rewrites, or edits.