Writing by Tarot

I've had a slow start to Camp NaNoWriMo this April but the last few days have been crazy fun... and creative, and rewarding. I've let myself go a little (and there is a card to that affect). I've been using Tarot or 'Healing with the Fairies Oracle Cards' as writing prompts along with the short  story ideas section of John Marsden's 'Everything I Know About Writing' book.

It's been brilliant. I pick a card and work my way through the list of ideas one by one. Then I write a story of any length, genre, or style somehow connected to the two prompts.

At the moment I'm on my fifth short story based on the Teddy Bears' Picnic and the Magic of Nature. Two of the earlier stories I feel are worth working on and that's great because...

I'm determined that this year will be the year I am published. Or better yet the year I actually attempt to get published. I'll actually polish of my stories and send them to magazines and enter them into competitions . Even just that will be a triumph, especially if I persist from the rejection that's sure to come.

Wish me luck, and good luck to you and all your big plans for the year, writerly or otherwise.

Artistic Blues

I'm feeling bit mopey at the moment which is silly because things are going really well. I'm feeling really pumped about my jewellery and accessories biz, and my writing even seems to be on track. But  I haven't been drawing much and when I think about that it makes me sad.

I would really like to pick up on all the artistic practise I'd been doing at the beginning of the year and try and figure out a way to incorporate it into Hearsay. I'd also really like to do some artwork that is somehow related to the short stories I'm working on at the moment; think islands, teenage girls, gods, cults, and ritual sacrifice.

The Night Watcher by Cory Godbey

Like a Restless Wind by Stella Im Hultberg

By Rachel Suggs

And finally one of the inspirations for my short story

Andromeda by Odilon Redon