Page 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:

• vigilance

• the wisdom of experience

• situational awareness

Some thoughts that occur to me:

• A veteran believes the threat thought vanquished is still out to get them. No one believes them.

• Instead of a young innocent, the mentor finds their hero is a grizzled veteran. How does that change the story?

• Pick a trope where the characters are normally oblivious to their danger and re-write the story with them being highly prepared and aware.

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.