New blog post: Tarot for writers
@herself so excited to see this! I'm (working to become) a fiction writer, and also just bought a tarot deck, though I haven't dug into learning about it yet. this is just the type of thing I'm hoping to use it for, thank you! (I haven't read your whole post yet but fyi that Micro Monday link didn't work for me; I did find this via search)
@herself whoops, that Micro Monday link was on your "about" page, but I see you figured out what I meant. :-) really enjoyed that post and bookmarked it so I can give these idea a spin this summer when I dig into that my shiny new deck. thanks again!
@herself I've saved your article to my Instapaper account to read later. I've played about with Tarot in the past, have a deck here at home and am curious how you tie Tarot in with writing.
@herself so why ‘bold’ to call it an ‘article’?
Saved to read later.
@crossingthethreshold Thanks! It's not exactly ground-breaking, but I like that you can use it in different ways creatively.
@herself sorry I missed it ... serious question that I occasionally explore ... under the broad umbrella of ‘why I hate the term content’ .. this one fits into the “what makes an article an article’?
@JohnPhilpin fair enough! I don’t like that term either. Another bugbear is when reporters say “consumers” when “people” works just fine.
@herself @JohnPhilipin Yes, to the "consumers" vs "people" bugbear. In fact I would go a stage further and say that those who are call "cosumers" are "people." In my opinion, once you demote people to consumers they just become objects, and objects are much easier to toss aside or reduce to statistics.
@herself I write about diets and food a bit and have come to hate calling people who eat consumers. But ...
@crossingthethreshold @johnphilpin I totally agree. It reduces people to their quality of consumption.
@herself A belated wow, great, love it!
Also, Tarot and Oulipo in the same essay? You are my people! I’ve been a lifelong advocate for chance operations as part of the creative process; with only a little modification, I think a lot of what you say is applicable to other genres, too, especially poetry.
My favorite decks are the Rider, the Marseilles, and the quirky Morgan’s Tarot, which I’ve loved ever since encountering it in the mid-80s. Eno’s Oblique Strategies is another excellent tool to shake things up.
@rnv omg, I adore oblique strategies! Our people, indeed! I love the random and the chaotic, and also looking at methods for bringing back sense from the madness, haha!
@rnv we talked a while back on Oulipo, I think. We were discussing using libraries, and book spines, to generate weird titles and ideas? :))