You don't have to be traveling afar to send postcards to people 'back home'. You can be a pen pal and write to people around the world. You can also join groups like PostCrossing. "A project that allows you to send postcards and receive postcards back from random people around the world".
But, what do you write on a postcard, especially if you aren't traveling, seeing new places and faces?
You can write almost anything, fairly short to fit on a postcard. Introduce yourself. Write about some interesting thing you did, or saw, or heard about. Write about your location - whatever image your postcard shows. Ask questions about where they live - you have their mailing address so you at least know where they live.
Don't assume you have nothing interesting to write about. If you are traveling and sending postcards home to family and friends you certainly have new things to make note of. Silly things that happened along the way. Something that you did or heard, smelled, touched, watched, or tasted. What do you think about the places you've seen. What would your family/ friend like to know about: history, hobbies, different customs, sports, food?
If nothing else, just write about your day. A postcard can be a snapshot of your day, your adventures, your ideas.
Don't forget to use good penmanship. Postcards are usually hand written. Although you could try out mail art, someone still needs to read or understand what you write.
What could you write about if you were sending a postcard today?
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Writing may be the loneliest profession. We begin alone with a blank in front of us. Alone, we must come up with something from inside our well of experience, knowledge, intellect to fill the void and create something which someone else can enjoy and understand. You may never literally bleed onto a page (outside of papercuts) but we do leave something of ourselves imprinted in everything we write, non-fiction included.
No wonder we get writer's block. Writer's burn out. Writer's run dry and writer's can lack inspiration. Writer's can lack motivation too but often the necessities like bill paying and the onslaught of a deadline will help with motivation.
Is there a Cure for Writer's Block?
Are you so stuck you can't imagine writing another word? Ever?
Of course not. You can write as easily as you can read. So write a grocery list. Give it a spin. Write something else ordinary next.
After awhile you'll be itching to write something less ordinary again.
What do you do when you can't find the inspiration to write?
I've thought about changes to the structure of my story and how I use narration, or don't use it all. Should I change the point of view to another character? I've thought about great ways I can mess up a character who has become too good to be true. I've written about how I feel about writing in notes to myself. I'm making an effort to vary sentence length in fiction and non-fiction - something I was working on but forgot about.
Every writer goes through a dry spell. We all need to have some inspiration at some point. It helps all those times we are alone, sitting with a blank, empty page in front of us, depending on our wits to fill it with greatness.
He came to an unexpected fork in the road. It wasn't on the map he'd been given.
Still, there was the choice of left or right, or to just go back and forget about the whole trip. But, having started this mad adventure it seemed a good time to keep going, to not give up. So, left or right... To the right he could plainly see the road leading to the town, fairly far in the distance yet. To the left, the road led into a dark forest. Studying the road, it seemed to disappear into the darkness thick with trees.
Well, what was an adventure without some mystery, a little danger, a bit of risk? He was a master of all the video games he had ever tried... no problem.
He walked to the left, into the forest, and was never seen again.
Writing Prompt: Pick a phrase you hear, something that tends to stick in your mind. Write a really short story around it.