Muse Food – Poseidon / Neptune In Mazatlán And Other Gods

By Cynthia Sax on March 24, 2025

The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I spotted this GIANT statue of Poseidon / Neptune in Mazatlán, Mexico.

It was aptly situated next to the aquarium. (grins)

Almost every culture on Earth has at least one deity featured in its stories. It is human to want to credit the wonders of this planet and the often seemingly random events in our lives to a greater power.

I suspect this will also be true of many off planet cultures.

Who is your character’s deity (or deities)? What do these deities control? What do they look like? How do they act? What do THEY value?

This will tell you and readers a lot about your character’s concerns/beliefs/values.

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Muse Food – Mazatlán And Juxtaposition

By Cynthia Sax on March 18, 2025

We were trekking along a very urban part of Mazatlán, Mexico when we came across this body of water and the greenery surrounding it.

It delighted us.

I LOVE contrasts. They always grab my attention and delight me.

And I’m not alone. Many readers are intrigued by contrasts and juxtapositions also.

The hero with the scarred face and the sadness reflecting in his eyes. The heroine who kicks a$$ yet stops to pet a kitten. The desert planet with a green oasis in the middle of it. The sea licking at the sandy shore.

Use juxtaposition and contrasts to captivate your readers.

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Muse Food – Look Upward

By Cynthia Sax on March 3, 2025

The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I spotted this vibrantly colored bird in Mazatlan, Mexico.

It is human nature to gaze around us at our eye level. That’s quick. That’s easy.

That’s…dangerous. Because threats can come from the sky. And they can come from below us.

As writers, we tend to describe the scene from our character’s eye level also.

And that can be…uninspired. Because there are likely interesting things happening above their heads and below their feet.

Look upward.

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Muse Food – Gates To Nowhere

By Cynthia Sax on August 8, 2022

You’re tramping around the forest and suddenly, you spot it – a gate in the middle of nowhere.

Do you open the gate? Do you walk through it?

My muse LOVES it when I find a mystery gate.

My mind whirrs.

Where does it lead? Why was it erected? Is it there to keep people out to keep something in?

This gate isn’t a mystery…now. This is La Cueva Del Diablo or The Devil’s Cave. We spotted it in Mazatlán, Mexico. It is located at the bottom of a steep 100 meter ravine and is currently a bit of a tourist attraction It was supposedly used to hide soldiers and ammunition during times of war and there are a gazillion spooky stories associated with it.

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Provoking Odium

A Beautiful Cyborg

While accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board their ship to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and her scarred countenance. Her verbal-only relationship with the sexy cyborg who answers her distress call is a steamy yet short-lived fantasy. His kind is physically perfect, and she is…not. He will uncover that truth when…if they survive the attack upon her freighter.

Provoking Odium is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It features a human female intent on remaining mysterious, a cyborg warrior determined to uncover her identity, and an enemy seeking to destroy them both before they have the opportunity to meet.

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