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One card from each deck. Write from any of them, or all four.
Write without stopping until the candle burns down. No editing, no going back.
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Loose ideas, one card each. Sort them by colour, pin the keepers, shuffle the rest, and send any card to your page.
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For Our Human Friends
Ink for the page, tea for the writer.
For human friends
Inkwell Chai
Writing Study · FocusContains caffeine (black tea)
Spiced black tea and warm milk, for the next page.
½-inch piece fresh ginger, sliced (or ¼ tsp ground)1.3 cm piece fresh ginger, sliced (or 1.25 mL ground)
1 bag black tea
¾ cup milk180 mL milk
1–2 tsp honey or sugar5–10 mL honey or sugar
Steps
Simmer the water with the cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and ginger over low heat for 5 minutes.
Turn off the heat, add the tea bag, and steep 3 to 5 minutes.
Warm the milk until steaming and whisk until frothy.
Strain the tea into a mug, stir in the sweetener, and top with the milk.
✦ Optional magic
Stir three times one way to invite a new idea, and once the other way to keep the good ones you already have. Then write down the first sentence that arrives.
For our human friends only. Tea and cocoa aren’t safe for Sunny, Pearl, or your pets.
