Mostly I read into the cards as a form of meditation, but sometimes divining feels like a game, a riddle, a quest for clarity-not unlike my writing process. Reading tarot cards, for example, is a ritual of chance. I like the rush of chance more than the predictability of ritual-though I suppose the two aren’t mutually exclusive. This is the one of five features from select authors in our HAUNTED issue, this time featuring Rochelle Hurt, whose essay “Terror Mirror” will appear in HFR 67. These are the spaces they shared with us. We asked them to engage our senses and tell us which aspects of process must be deliberate and what is arbitrary. We asked about their rituals- special meals that have to be eaten pre-writing sesh, only writing in purple ink, lucky pieces of clothing that may have once inspired a particularly powerful passage. We asked writers to tell us about their necessary spaces the physical spaces as well as the desired headspace to write. In SPACE EXPLORATION, our goal is to demystify writers’ environments and explore the ways in which they’ve been created and curated, and how they affect the mental spaces of the authors who inhabit them. When we read a great book, we only see the final product, and not the obsessive care put into the work environment that allowed for its creation. Writers also have rituals that must be performed in order to shake off bad vibes and get into a zone where they feel comfortable putting words on a page. These are strange quirks, but they are crucial for these space-explorers to feel comfortable before and during a mission. Russian cosmonauts pee on the right rear tire of their transfer bus on the way to a launch. NASA commanders play cards with the tech crew the night before a launch, continuing until the commander loses a hand. Astronauts perform some strange superstitions before they shoot off into orbit to explore the vast expanses of space.
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