Tarot for Fiction Writers 101: Live Interactive Class

**New Dates Coming Soon**

Learn how to put tarot to work in your creative process in this workshop-style class that covers all the tarot basics to get you unstuck and go deeper into your plots and characters. 

Class Format

• This is an interactive workshop-style class
• Six one-hour sessions 
• Class meets once per week
• Class taught via Zoom. All sessions are recorded 

Why Choose the Interactive Class?

• Fun, creative atmosphere with opportunity to interact with other writers

• Small class size (Capped at 12 people)

• Detailed examples and instructions, great for visual and hands-on learners

• Interactive and collaborative practice with each technique

• Learn from fellow students as well as your instructor

• Recordings available if you want to revisit class material or miss a class

• Try-this-at-home exercises to reinforce concepts

Tarot for Fiction Writers 101: Class Curriculum

Week 1: Introduction, Tarot Basics, and How Tarot Can Amplify Your Creativity

• Welcome and Introductions: 

• Tarot Basics: 78 Cards. Brief History. Major Arcana: Big Picture, Minor Arcana, Everyday Life, 4 Suits: 1-10 + Court Cards. Introduce Fool’s Journey as a character arc w/out going into too much detail or it will take up the whole class. 4 Suits and Characteristics of each.

• Tarot for Fiction Writers Approach: Your Imagination + Storytelling Prompts + Tarot Interpretation= Creativity Unlocked. 

• Practice with sample prompts

Week 2: The Tarot Prompting Process and Methods for Interpreting the Cards 

• Parts of the writing process where tarot can help

• The Tarot Prompting Process

• Interpretation Techniques: Visual Interpretation and Traditional Meaning Interpretations

• Practice with sample prompts

Week 3: Developing Characters with Tarot

• Developing Characters with Tarot

• Foundations

• Adding Nuance

• Creating Resonant Characters: Balancing the specific with the universal

• Archetypes

• Differentiating characters with psychological facet archetypes (the Persona, the Shadow, and the Self)

• Character Arcs: The Fool’s Journey and the Self

Week 4: Developing Your Plot with Tarot

• Randomness: How the randomness of prompting with tarot can help us reach beyond well-tread paths and come up with unique ideas

• Play: How tarot prompting tricks our minds into a state of play and the benefits for creativity

• Plot Prompt practice
  

Week 5: Getting Unstuck with Tarot

• Novelty: How introducing something fun and new can help you combat stagnation

• Getting Unstuck Prompt Practice

Week 6: Wrapping Up & Crafting a Story Premise with Tarot

• Choosing a deck to suit your story’s genre and mood

• Creating a new story premise with tarot prompts 

• Any final questions and choose your own tarot adventure

• Making tarot prompting your own