How to Use a Postcard to Write a Story

If you are having writer's block or are looking for new ideas, look to a postcard that you have never used, or a used one you have found at an antique store. Here's how to write a story from a postcard.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Paper
• Pen or pencil
• Imagination
• Time
• Postcard

1. Look at your postcard. What do you think is going on in the picture?

2. Write down a list of images you see in your postcard.

3. Now write down a series of associations with these images.

4. Turn the postcard over. Is there writing? What does it say?

5. Write down what the postcard says under your previous work on a separate sheet of paper.

6. Now circle images such as colors, places or time that you can connect to the written message.

7. This is a fictional piece, so make up your own idea of why the person wrote this note, or a story as to what is really going on in the postcard.

8. Next, start writing. Be sure to incorporate the items, colors and concepts from the postcard into your new found story.