From: "Robert A. Howard" 
> Any suggestions on how to go about writing a prophesy? Or how I can again
avoid telling them it? :) Though I don't know how much longer they'll let me
live if I keep on dodging that particular bullet... :)
>
A lot of my prophecy and legend material was written at ungodly hours of the
morning mullocked on red wine after playing or talking roleplaying for many
hours.  You don't necessarily need a poison to free up the creative juices,
but it can help in producing stuff that isn't s obviously "from your hand".
You also want to write A LOT so that you can cull the crap and pull together
sufficiently obscure elements.

To write a targeted prophecy is more difficult (I always wrote first and
made sense of it later).  You've got to get your head to where-ever and
who-ever the author was at the time of writing, while also being in tune
with the goals and personality of whoever is providing the vision.

The other thing I found useful was to have a raw document that formed the
original prophecy and to add notes written by different researchers down
through time as they attempted to explain the prophecy.  This let's you make
the actual prophecy really vague and surreal, but identify and explain
elements of it.  The advantage of the notes is that they can be wrong, or
they can disagree with each other.

Do you have a style in mind?  Have you written anything at all?

Chris.

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