It’s a wonder someone didn’t figure the connection sooner, but I am glad Kenner saw the possibilities and used her clear and no-nonsense prose to stimulate the muse and give writers a tool that will keep them writing for decades. I’ve suggested it to all my writer friends as the best tool available.

This has been one of the most productive years of my life as a writer. I completed a novel during the month of NaNoWriMo and finally finished the first draft of a manuscript of poetry. I am thrilled to be writing daily. … Corrine has the singular gift of making the complex easy.

I was stuck, stymied, and without a clue as to where the story in this NaNoWriMo project was headed, but I wasn’t worried about an onset of writer’s block — I have Tarot. With a quick shuffle and a draw of a single card, I wrote three thousand words, generated a sub-plot, and found a new character. Yes, it is just that simple.

Corrine’s online Tarot for Writers meetup has helped me in my writing, and I’m so glad her book is finally in my hands. I joined her group in November 2008 and the exercises helped me with the novel I was working on for NaNoWriMo. Her book is full of wonderful ideas and exercises to help writers delve deeper into the worlds and characters they are creating.

Learn to take one card and turn it into a character, a sentence, a scene. Then take another and continue the story. There are lots of exercises, and they can be done over and over with different cards to generate different results. The possibilities are limited only by your own imagination.

Whether you are an old pro with cards or a beginner doesn’t matter. It helps to know the meanings of the cards, but you can also do this by looking at the card and focusing on any detail you find in it. Tarot for Writers is a great tool for people at any level.

I’ve never thought about using Tarot to write, but it does make sense and I’ve come up with so many ideas I don’t even know where to start. … Now I feel like I could actually write something and have it published. Worth every penny in my opinion!

After suffering years of writer’s block, I felt like my dream of being a writer was just that, a dream. A friend suggested this book to me and wow, the words came flowing and I had more inspiration than you could ever imagine. It is a must have for every writer. I thought Tarot was for fortune telling, and now I see it a whole different way.

I love the no-nonsense approach Corrine Kenner used in teaching the fundamentals of the tarot. Her memory triggers greatly helped organize the cards in my mind to help in learning the different card meanings.

I was able — in 15 minutes — to come up with a chapter framework and the first few pages of that chapter based on one card. ONE. It amazes me that I can do this, and believe me, if I can — you can!

Finally, a nice way to combine both of my passions! It is interesting how I always saw reading Tarot cards as a storytelling of sorts, and now, the cards are poised to help me figure out my other stories!

I was half way through the first entry (The Sun) when I stopped and went “Hey now, I have this character!” and grabbed a notebook and started matching the cast of my WIP to the archetypes, and I must say, I found most of them. That was pretty cool, and gave me some ideas I hadn’t considered before.

Corrine Kenner does a fine job of providing insights and exercises to using the tarot to explore the lives and stories of the fictional characters that we craft in our minds.

Corrine Kenner gives you a perpetual source of inspiration, waiting for you pull a card and pick up your pen or turn on your laptop and just start writing.

Corrine Kenner sets out, very simply and thoroughly, how to use one card at a time to develop a story.

I know so much more about my main character now. … One of the things I really like about this is that you don’t have to stress yourself out over the tarot aspects of this. If you don’t like or understand what you draw, it’s fine to just shove the cards back in the deck and try again. It’s like brainstorming with pictures. Which saves me a lot of paper!

I attended an online course with the author of this book a while ago. Her technique really worked well, among others, she made us write what the characters in the cards were thinking, how they were talking to us and I remember I enjoyed the exercise very much. Corrine Kenner is good. Honestly.

It was pretty amazing how the cards (using the Dark Grimoire) brought the characters out of my head. I had a rough idea, a kind of a murky vision of each one, and the cards brought them to crystal clarity, flaws and all. I am very happy that with roughly 2 hours work, I was able to outline a 90 page script, and have the beginnings of some subplots and conflict.

I’ve been reading Tarot and also a professional writer for more than a decade, but I never thought of combining my two great passions in a productive manner like this. Many thanks to Corinne!!! *hearts*

Kenner delivers what she promises. Her knowledge of tarot is extensive and, like all people who thoroughly understand a subject, she is able to communicate what she knows in clear, simple terminology. She manages to include a broad range of tarot information without overwhelming the reader with an academic tone. Having studied tarot for four decades, I am always impressed when a discussion of tarot captures my attention and Kenner did just that.

So I have been doing alot of writing lately, and I am kinda surprised at how well the book Tarot for Writers has helped me break some terrible writers block. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe that the cards are supernatural or have “powers”. Yeah, funny, the guy who writes horror and has studied Occult phenomena for over 2 decades doesn’t believe in magic. But I do like writing about the imagery of the cards and the supernatural. And it is a very good system for me so far. I have studied alot of the “Hero’s Journey” and I find the cards fit the archetypes of the HJ very well. I am able to generate plots, character background, mood and tons of other things using Tarot Cards.