Plotting and Brainstorming with the Tarot

Struggling to come up with unique ideas for your short story, novel, or screenplay? Needing to break out of a writing rut? Suffering from writer’s block?

Jenna Reynolds has the answer and the cure for you.

The Tarot.

You may be familiar with the tarot as a pack of cards used to tell fortunes. But the tarot is more than that. It’s also a fun and imaginative way to come up with ideas, characters and plots.

Using tarot cards we will tap into the unconscious for story ideas and concepts that lie just below the surface of our conscious thoughts. We will explore the archetypal images of the tarot and use them to brainstorm ideas for the stories you are longing to tell.

All you will need for the workshop is a tarot deck and a willingness to open your mind to your possibilities as a creator of extraordinary and intriguing tales. No matter what genre you write–science fiction, mysteries, romance, suspense, fantasy, paranormal, literary–the tarot can aid you.

The week-long workshop will cover the following
• brainstorming with the tarot to come up with creative concepts and ideas for your stories
• using the tarot to create unique, fascinating characters
• plotting your story, novel or screenplay so that plotting is not only fun but intuitively inspired
• drawing on the power of tarot images to replenish your creative well when it runs dry.

This will be a hands-on workshop so be prepared to use your tarot deck. You may be surprised at what you come up with!

If you don’t already own a tarot deck, check out the following website. It’s an excellent source for information about tarot decks and, best of all, you can choose decks based on your interests, whether it’s cats, mythology, aliens, baseball or vampires.

Aeclectic Tarot: http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/

Here you can search for tarot decks by themes:
Aeclectic Tarot Themes: http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/themes.shtml

Interested? Then sign up below and join us on our tarot adventure!

Cost: $20 for full class.

First Lesson Posted: Not Enrolling Currently

If interested in this class, let us know! howtowriteshop@gmail.com .

Mail:
How to Write Shop
P.O. Box 46251
Madison, WI 53744
(Checks made payable to Lori Devoti. Please email us so we know your check is coming.)

Jenna Reynolds is the pseudonym of an author from the Midwest. She’s an avid collector of tarot cards and has studied the tarot for over twenty years She holds a Master’s Degree in English from the University of Wisconsin. She has written stories for Ellora’s Cave, recognized as the world’s first and foremost publisher of erotic romance for women, as featured in Forbes, the Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly and The Montel Show. Under her other pen name Anna Black, Jenna’s short stories have appeared in The MILF Anthology, Cowboy Lover-Erotic Stories of the Wild West, The Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra, the Cleis Press anthologies Hurts So Good, and The Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Erotica. Her short stories have also appeared in anthologies edited by New York Times bestselling author, Zane.