Hello and welcome to my corner in the readers world. I was super excited when I embarked upon this writers journey. I had been pondering on an idea for quite a while and hadn’t quite established how I would start. I then had a eureka moment and it all seemed to fall into place.
I had been looking for inspiration to write a book, and had come across a Victorian Romantic deck of cards. As I studied the Major arcana within the deck, I decided to see what would spring out and and I was so delighted as the characters within my book appeared. That is how it all began.
The first card was always going to be the protagonist. This was the fool. A young innocent boy starting as everyone does on life’s journey, with no idea of the problems he may need to solve, the challenges he would need to resolve and so I developed the plot around this youth.
I chose the antagonist to be female, a she Devil who was going to put temptation in the fool’s way and try to lead him off his chosen path. Someone to test his strengths.
The Magician his friend and his teacher. This character was magical with strange thought transference, skills he uses as part of the fools education. A good friend to the boy, who he doesn’t realise the old man is aging, dying and has had a spell released after successfully sharing his knowledge with the young man.
The High Priestess, I discovered to my interest she was a metaphor for the fool’s gut feeling. Every time she appeared on the page, the advice she was passing on to him was to go inside and listen for what felt was right.
The story developed. It talked to the reader about themselves. Everyone’s experience of life. It spoke of happiness, lies, temptations, battles and depression. I wanted to creatively weave it within a fantasy and fairy tale and lace it so that everyone could relate to it.
An audio version of the book was created, Howard Ellison is perfect. Ellisonhttps://www.youtube.com/c/HowardEllisonUKVoice. His voice is just wonderful, exactly who I was searching for, and he agreed to narrate the book. Howard during his career was BBC trained and had worked on adverts such as The Mask, Britain on Film, BBC America amongst many including https://www.mastercard.us
So that, my fellow readers, was how I got started with The Fool’s Journey.
’Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.‘ Albert Einstein.
The human experience. 