Strength

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:

• courage

• inner strength and calm

• purity of purpose

• overcoming weaknesses

• animal self, animal guides

Some thoughts that occur to me:

• A lot of descriptions of this card talk about the courage of a lion. Would the lion be as brave if it wasn’t so likely to win?

• How could I include the idea of an animal guide without it being a fantasy story?

• A character who faces conflict with calm and serenity (without them seeming to just be unaffected).

• A group of heroes come into contact with a monster. What if one of them could secretly control it? What are they going to do with that control?

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.