Ace of Swords

I'm going to be posting daily prompts to inspire writing, art or journaling. Use these as you would like to help keep your creative practices moving.

Key words/ideas:

• cutting through confusion

• new opportunities

• a breakthrough

Some thoughts that occur to me:

• A character who creates feels inspired. But by what?

• The clouds on this card represent the confusion and those things blocking understanding. Try to write a story that reverses that.

• Imagine your character works in the communications arm of a villain or anti-hero. What kind of things would they put out into the world. See if you can tell a story through these alone.

During January 2024 I recommend using these either to generate ideas, alongside the Solo Writer’s Curriculum theme for the month, or to prepare for the writing activity I will be suggesting next month, Flash February (28 days, 28 pieces of flash fiction).

Note that cards are drawn at random and may be drawn more than once. In that case I will repost with an additional idea. I am going to cap the number of repeats at 3 until I’ve been through the whole deck, but other than this I let the luck of the draw decide. Coming up with more ideas for the same card will force me to be more imaginative and its something I strongly recommend.