TIP (𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯.)
1. a small but useful piece of practical advice
─ IN WHICH THE ADMINS GIVE YOU SOME HELP FOR WRITING ANYTHING INVOLVING MYTHOLOGY
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If you want to link mythology with the present lifestyle and you think it's harder than you expected, well, welcome to the club. I'm kidding. It might be troubling to weave figures and creatures into a modern-day story but it isn't impossible. It has been done before and very much succeeded.
Authors like Rick Riordan, Neil Gaiman and Joanne Harris have brought various types of mythology in their acclaimed novels. Where Riodan wrote of a modern-day boy who finds out his father is Poseidon, Gaiman wrote about an ex-convict asked to be a bodyguard for a con man and finds out magic is real and fear grows, and Harris who wrote where Norse gods are still outlaws after the end of the world. Each author mentioned have made a name out of theirselves by combining mythology with present. It seems more people are interested in a reality where gods live within the same streets as us.
Try to take in mind if you want to mix these two elements together then it is your story and you have plenty of versions to add in it. Don't let no one tell you it didn't happen because of the way you are writing it. If you want to add your own thing into it then it is completely fine. However, do try to be accurate when writing about mythology because it is much better if you do so. You don't want to be criticized if you change a whole plot of a very important and known myth.
Myths are not just for dry, dusty old anthropology professors to glee over—they're living stories which we continually retell for the times we live in. So have fun exploring loads of different myths and thinking 'What If'? Because you never know what might happen if you set yourself writing a book linked with present-day and myth.
