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The Center blog is teeming with tips and inspiration for starting and maintaining your writing practice.

Teneice Durrant, creator of Tarot with Ten, will use various tarot and oracle decks to provide monthly readings for writers, with exercises on using imagery and intuition as prompts. October’s prompt guides you to create a story to explain or invent a Halloween tradition.

 

Surely there’s no better time to use tarot cards for a writing prompt than when the veil between worlds is the thinnest!

Out There Screaming is a thoughtful collection of psychological horror and speculative fiction that examines the expectations of the world on Black bodies.
Write about someone or something in your life that is "evergreen."
I took Three-Dimensional Design again, three years later. Then, I was older than my classmates, and I knew why I was there...
This month's prompt is about using the imagery and symbolism of tarot to develop a scene about the “black sheep” of a family.
Try an exercise to develop both scene and summary and connect past with present and future.
Who or what could make you risk it all?
Capture the sensory experience of a favorite back-to-school or classroom memory.
August's prompt is about using the imagery of tarot and the remembered elements of dreams to create story scenes.
The air was enchanted, electrified with what I can only call the love that moved between the four of us, who had experienced something so other than the war, of such a different order than a world of folly...