The Hello and welcome to Terrell Bites. I'm Theresa Reed the Terrell Lady. I'm the author of the Terrell

Coloring Book and your host for this podcast series. This is episode 97 of Terabytes, the

podcast where I dish out short entertaining bite-sized lessons on how to

re-terrel and for today's episode our topic is the truth about producing your own terror deck and I'm speaking with my friend

Benne Bell Wen the author of holistic tarot and the Dow of Craft. Hello Benne Bell.

Hi Teresa. I am so excited to talk about this topic because I've been watching you creating a

deck and so I am super nosy about this. That's wonderful I'm super happy to talk about it. Well I want to know first of all what I mean what

inspired you to create the deck so we just have an idea what drove you to do this?

I think I've always had it in my head from you know from

the get-go you know that I wanted to create a terror deck I didn't have the

confidence I didn't think I had anything to add to you know the tens upon thousands of

decks that were already out there and then when I thought you know what I'm just going to create it for

myself it's not for anybody else that kind of gave me sort of the jump to get into it.

And then after I finished it, I just thought, you know, this is, I had something to say, I said

it, and so I decided to publish it.

So can you tell me a bit about the process from going from an idea to actually turning it into a deck?

I think this is my opinion only. I think it depends whether you're a seasoned terror reader or you're just interested in turning

your art into a terror act, you know what I'm saying?

Because I think when you're an experienced tarot reader, I think in your mind you've always, I mean you probably have a tarot drag in some form constructed in your head, you know what I'm saying? And it's just a matter of like manifesting it. So because I am a tarot reader and I read professionally I've always sort of had well I kind of think the fool should look like this or I think the chariot should look like that and and so it just became a matter of

hunkering down and getting it down onto paper as an experience reader I think if

you're not an experience reader there's probably a lot more brainstorming going

on right and that makes total sense.

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