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After a very long hiatus due to covid and every te After a very long hiatus due to covid and every technical issue under the sun, I am thrilled to finally announce that my workshop *Persephone, Pluto & Power* is out now!

Here is a sneak preview!

To learn more about this workshop, visit elizaserenarobinson.com/wordpress
It's been 9.5 years since I began writing The Pure It's been 9.5 years since I began writing The Purest Form of Chaos, and this book has faded in and out of existence in various forms. This was one of the last scenes I added to the book, only two years old where other parts have lived for almost a decade. Late as it was to arrive in the story, this short exchange between Phoenix and Persephone is one of my favourites. This one's for the hypocrites, the failures, the people with good intentions who never seem to get it right. The biggest change in Persephone's character since the earlier drafts was that I allowed her to fail, to be anything other than a perfect heroine. Persephone is a failure and Phoenix is a hypocrite, and if that doesn't capture what it's like to be in your early 20s (albeit in a fun futuristic setting) I don't know what does.
This book has taught me a lot about failure, about hypocrisy, about perseverance. In this quiet space, where I have withdrawn it from the world in hope of a more promising future, I am changing the ending, setting the stage for a different sequel than the one I planned to write. And now that I am changing it, I couldn't imagine anything more fitting: because the only thing more frustrating than failure is watching that failure grow a life of its own, become something far bigger than the mistake that caused it. I've had many people over the years make the assumption that this book is YA, because my characters start in their late teens, because of the genre, etc. But this is a book about what comes after, about that period between 18-23 where failure is the thing that thrusts you forward, failure is what gets you where you need to go. Persephone fails at everything she tries to do. Phoenix gets everything she ever wanted and loses so much more. And they both have stories to tell.

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Rainy Saturdays call for bookshop cafes, and coffe Rainy Saturdays call for bookshop cafes, and coffee with the novel I can never quite let go of.

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I don't know when I stopped missing travel, stoppe I don't know when I stopped missing travel, stopped aching for it the way I did when all this began. It's been two years since I was in Tallinn, wandering through the streets where my novel is set, eating oatmeal cookies and looking down from the viewing platforms out towards the Baltic Sea. Travel used to be the focal point of my life, the way I would come back to myself. My yearly trips to Estonia were pilgrimages, they were how I honoured my inner writer, my inner artist. They were my path to freedom, and those journeys were something I could always create for myself.
At some point I stopped hoping. I accepted that the pandemic was here to stay, and I wouldn't be leaving Scotland any time soon. Last night I dreamt of Tallinn, the night before I dreamt someone was speaking to me in Latvian. The Baltic States are calling to me once again, and for the first time in a long time, I'm allowing myself to dream.
So many hopes call out to me from next year, but one of my greatest hopes is to travel again. I want to go back to Tallinn, I want to go to Moscow, where the first half of my novel is set. I want to visit friends in Berlin and Vilnius. I want to come back to the part of myself that has been in hibernation for two years. I want so much more from life than what I have accepted these past two years, and most of all I want adventure, I want something to write about.

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The thought that keeps coming to me today is: I sp The thought that keeps coming to me today is: I spend too much time consuming, when I want to be creating. 
I've been feeling really ill for the past few days, and all I've had the energy to do is sleep, talk on the phone, listen to podcasts. I want to write, to update my website, to make a plan of how to move forward, and all my body has let me do is crash.
So I'm honouring the downtime. Because the words are there for me to come back to. I dip in and out of the pages of my novel, and where I once saw the end goal, I now see it as the beginning. I don't feel trapped by time anymore.
Normally when I'm sick, I push through it, and force myself further into burnout. Instead, I'm letting myself rest, I'm allowing myself to function at less than my best without viewing it as a sign of weakness.
I'm letting myself be human. 

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Black Moon Lilith is a dark point in the orbit of Black Moon Lilith is a dark point in the orbit of the moon, neither planet nor asteroid, simply a mathematical calculation. In astrology it represents the shadow feminine and the dark side of female power; warped and chaotic. Sometimes freedom comes from chaos, and empowerment from destruction.

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The greatest lesson you can learn as a young woman The greatest lesson you can learn as a young woman and a writer is to hold your own stories close. There is freedom in fiction, a radical rejection of the lie we have been sold that our creative value comes from baring our most vulnerable wounds to the world in order to be taken seriously. 
I've been writing tales of Persephone and Hades (or Haden) since I was 14, but I wrote this poem two years ago, at 21. I used to write poems so raw they were like bleeding on a page. No longer. Once again, I found salvation in Persephone, in the underworld. No more poetry about my own heart's journeys. It was time to inhabit a character once more.

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