I’m intrigued by the tarot readings you’re doing and how it can help with characters, etc. I don’t know much about tarot reading, but checkec out a site on your blogroll. Since I have this affinity for mythic and archetypal stuff anyway, it might be a promising avenue to travel for a while, see what happens.

Gotta hate midterm time! I know I do!

Doing your characters’ tarot cards sounds cool? Is this just to give you a sense of their personality or is it a past/present/future reading? How do you get in the mindset to read for them?

I have to tell you, as a teacher (middle school for years, now teaching writing at the college level online), I can totally sympathize. Parents used to come into conference and tell me their child didn’t understand the material and that was why they were making poor grades. My reply — why aren’t they asking questions in class, then?