Description
It’s okay to laugh at the idea of consulting a Tarot deck to help you get past creative blocks. It’s a little out there. But shaking up your writing process should be fun. How else will you entice yourself back into your story or memoir?
To be clear, you do not need to know anything about the Tarot to benefit from this workshop. We’ll be using the cards to do intuitive writing by tapping into your imagination. Each card, with its striking and powerful imagery, is an invitation to go deeper. Brainstorming off the archetypes and life situations depicted in the Tarot will help you uncover hidden attributes of your characters and surprising plot developments. But don’t take my word for it… Both Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell wrote about the Tarot’s psychological and mythic elements — the very elements that make for powerful storytelling.
In this workshop, we’ll discuss how to use the Tarot as a source of inspiration and guidance for the stories you want to create and how Tarot reading techniques can enhance your writing process. No matter what kind of writing you do or where you are in your draft, this workshop is sure to stimulate your imagination and sense of discovery. Bring a pen and paper and come prepared to play.
We’ll Cover:
- Using the Tarot as a tool to support your writing
- Tapping into the cards’ psychological and mythic elements
- Exploring your character’s inner journey using the Major Arcana cards
- Enhancing your plot using the Minor Arcana cards
- Reinforcing your story’s theme with symbolism, metaphor, and juxtaposition
- Tarot reading techniques that can inspire your writing process
