cards to trigger story ideas

You can use whatever you want to trigger ideas. Some people like prompts, some people like music, some like images...if tarot works for you, cool.

 

I have used a set of Story Teller cards that are a mix of Tarot and NPC cards. Definitely light and fluffy, they had plot and character ideas as well as each having a unique picture with lots of "hidden" clues. So they also looked very pretty. They were useful when throwing out ideas for a young [9-year-old] writer to bite their teeth into.

 

I like tarot but have had mixed success using it as a prompt. I found it too restricting, but perhaps you can have better success—let us know if you do.

My first novel begins with a tarot reading, but that's a different story