Story idea - Tarot Tales?

[scottobear]

Loose concept: some weirdo works in a large photoprocessing lab, one of the central places where Walgreens sends their stuff. One day he notices a picture that -- very coincidentally --looks like something out of the tarot deck. He makes a personal copy and files it away as an oddity. Then he sees another, and another. Then he starts to try and track down the sources, the circumstances and the meanings of these. Then he starts trying to assemble a complete deck.

A different story for different photo/cards? Short snippets, one-pagers, maybe. Might make the morning 1-card spread more interesting to try and weave a tale out of it by the end of day.

Heck, it's a shame I don't know 76 other writers, and have each person pick a card to write on, and do a bigger story to knit them all together. I think that'll be a writing project. randomly draw a card each day, and pull it out of queue, after a story's been written about it.

Ack... between having Bejeweled, Bebop (sort of sims), and Books on my palm, I'm glad I didn't have this thing in school... I was actually considereing writing bejeweled for the palmtop before discovering it was ported over beautifully.

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[rgladiator.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps a mystery thriller. He tries to find the source of the cards but no one knows anything. Then he realized that they are predicting events that really happen in the near future. Very Twilight-Zoneish.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

not a bad idea, at all. :)

[artemii.livejournal.com]

i know people that have made their own decks.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

sounds like a wonderful project in it's own right....(I started thinking about taking photos with a digicam to go with the stories, but I'm not photo-adept enough, not do I have my digicam yet. :) )

[artemii.livejournal.com]

and it's impossible to get more personal with a deck than that, of course. ;)

[ldy.livejournal.com]

Sounds very Umberto Eco.

I Love it.

I've been wanting to illustrate my own deck since college.

But writing works; so, you'd only need to find 75 other people.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Umberto Eco is the ginchiest!