Five of Cups

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:

• loss

• self-pity

• disillusionment and disappointment

Some thoughts that occur to me:

• What happens if the hero cannot pull themselves out of their darkest moment? What do your other characters do in response?

• Write a mentor character who has become disillusioned with their mentee. The mentee doesn’t redeem themselves.

• A hero makes a sacrifice (of another person) that allows the win. Explore the end justifies the means vs grief.

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.