Postcards Home by Allison Symes
Image Credits: Images created in Book Brush using Pixabay images. Holiday season is often when most of us will continue to write but not to our usual extent given we all need breaks. But, once back again, have you given some thought as to what your characters would write if they were on holiday? What would such things tell you about them? Better still, what would your readers make of their postcards “home”? Now this is a great flash fiction exercise. Imagine one of your characters is sending a postcard home. Allow them to send just one. It has to count! What would they write and who to? Is the recipient expecting a card? Where would the card come from? Answering those questions should spark story ideas (as would the recipient’s likely response). This is an apt exercise for me to suggest because flash fiction has had many names in its time and postcard fiction is one of them. Usually you would get up to 100 words on a standard postcard (possibly 50, depending on how la...