IMAGERY

October's prompt is about using the Hermit card to develop a situation where your character seeks knowledge passed on from a mentor figure.

August’s prompt is about using the Strength card to develop an internal battle or learning opportunity for your character.

January's prompt will be about beginning a story about a hero's journey as it correlates to The Fool.

December’s prompt will help you retell an old classic in honor of the longest night of the year.

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!

Just in time for Valentine's Day, February's prompt is all about developing a love triangle.

Use the imagery and meaning of tarot to develop a person vs. person conflict in your story.

Place becomes character when we cannot separate place from story—but how do we achieve that effect? Here are three points of focus.

Imagery is one of the most important literary devices or tools in the writer’s tool box. Here are some great examples, plus a writing exercise designed to get you painting with words.

The snow has at last melted here. Three solid days of rain, and the daffodils are bursting! In the days before I painted flowers from my garden, and also in the days before my investigation of the use of yellow grew deep enough to dazzle me, I’d take note of the daffodils I’d brought up here, from my garden on Long Island, and how they poked through the leaves first, the garden still bedraggled and delinquent...