The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #585: Thirteenth Hour Sequel Update 28 - The Rainbow Rider and the Midnight Phoenix
The Thirteenth Hour Podcast
In this week's episode, I talk about a bit of lore I came up with years ago for the section of The Thirteenth Hour sequel I'm only now just writing. It concerns a children's fairy tale called "The Tale of the Rainbow Rider and the Midnight Phoenix," about how two mysterious creatures (birds, maybe?) end up joining forces. The midnight phoenix comes out at night and is surrounded by fire; the rainbow rider lives in the day and leaves a rainbow trail behind it, and together, they bring hope and safety to a land ravaged by war and poverty. Logan and Aurora, the star-crossed lovers separated by circumstance in the sequel, end up adopting those very roles (Logan, the rainbow rider since he rides on a magical hoverboard that produces rainbow exhaust and Aurora, the midnight phoenix after she unwittingly saves a citizen with magical fire and then vanishes in the night).
I actually wrote musical pieces to go along with these ideas years ago:
https://joshuablum.bandcamp.com/track/mourn-of-the-midnight-phoenix
https://joshuablum.bandcamp.com/track/there-is-magic-inside
The upshot of all this is that I'm finally knitting together ideas that emerged in fragments years ago. For me, the music, pictures, and so forth have been all ways of developing the story.
I am curious how other authors keep track of their ideas. Do you write things down? Draw graphs? Make one of those bulletin boards with pins and string connecting the different pieces that they always show serial killers using on TV?
More next week!
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Once Upon a Dream, the second Thirteenth Hour soundtrack, is now out in digital form!
It is out on most major streaming services such as Bandcamp, Spotify, and YouTube Music. (If you have no preference, I recommend Bandcamp since there is a bonus track there and you will eventually be able to find tapes, CDs, and special editions of the album there as well.)
-Check out the pixelart music videos that are out so far from the album:
-->Logan's Sunrise Workout: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7SM1RgsLiM
-->Forward: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9VgILr1TDc
-->Nightsky Stargazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S0p3jKRTBo
-->Aurora's Rainy Day Mix: https://youtu.be/zwqPmypBysk
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