The original Oblique Strategies is a deck of printed cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, first published in 1975. Each card contains a phrase or cryptic remark which can be used to break a creative block or dilemma situation.
The deck was developed as a series of "over 100 worthwhile dilemmas" to encourage lateral thinking and to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging thinking outside the box.
This deck builds on that idea and reimagines it as a tool specifically for authors writing fiction.
The strategies are not final, authoritative, or canonical. They are suggestions, ideas, and jumping off points for creativity, which may or may not be useful, depending on context, the problem at hand, or the individual using them.