The Tarot Card Exercise

Or

The Hand Fate Deals You

This exercise is a perennial favorite in my classes. It might look complicated, but the very specific parameters can be unexpectedly freeing.

Here's the exercise:

Write down three numbers between one and sixty.  (If you like, use this random number generator.)

Now click here. Write down the three words or phrases associated with your numbers.

(If you also want a character, write down a number between one and twenty-four and click here to get one.)

This is the hand fate has dealt you. (In class, they'd be on cards sitting in front of you.)

Set your timer for fifteen minutes.

The first word or phrase should be included in your first sentence
The second goes anywhere in the middle
The last one must be included in the last sentence

That's it!

image by Hiromi Nishizaka