Homework

This is a lot to take in.

What are some of the things you could do with this?

Remix & Adapt

You can invent suits. Rotate the wheel. Redraw the oppositions. Write your own archetypes. Remove some if there feel like too many.

This is a tool, not a belief system: there's no mysticism here. You can modify it as much or as little as you want!

Map Out Your Own Story Using The Beats

The characters' story cycle beats are a formula for building out a basic story.

You can use it, if you want!

Just Pick One at Random

Maybe you need a story beat, or a twist, or a moment of characterization, or just an idea.

Well, pick one of the Groovelet archetypes at random and here you are!

Create Your Own Lens

Let's line up twelve unique political viewpoints around the wheel! That would be interesting!

Honestly, I'm interested in any lens: if you can take 12 McDonalds menu items and make a case for where they sit on the wheel, I want to see it.

Then, share it!

Make Art of Your Interpretation of the Twelve

I like to think that the twelve are evocative enough that they would be an interesting and open-ended project for any artist.

Then, share it!

Create Concrete Lore and Worlds Based on the Twelve

The twelve islands, or twelve nations, or twelve continents, or twelve gods of your world. Start building them into your own fantasy realm!

Then, share it!

Create a Playing Card or Tarot Deck

The suits of the twelve lend themselves pretty easily to constructing a deck of playing cards.

Then, share it!

Actually Write a Story, Comic, or Novel

I know NaNoWriMo is coming up. Here's a whole mythology just waiting for you to instantiate it into a project!

Then, share it!

Copy and Modify The Source Code of This Book

It's available at https://github.com/cube-drone/groovelet-portable-mythology!

If you're comfortable with Git already, you're probably going to find this pretty easy. If you're not - well, that's a shame.

Where To Share Your Output

As of right now, the only social system I have up and running is reddit:

• /r/groovelet.
• #groovelet on your tag-aware social media platform of choice.¹

If your work is exciting, I may ask you for permission to add a Creative Commons-friendly version of it to this document!