99 postcards in my desk, 99 postcards …
As I mentioned a while ago … I have a lot of postcards and I’d like to do something about that. I’d thought about doing something with postcards and trees, but the more I thought about it, the less it made sense to do with my existing postcards. I’d thought about doing a straight up “send you a postcard like we’re friends and I’m sending you a postcard” project (I wouldn’t be the first person on Kickstarter to do so), but the more I thought about it, the more awkward it seemed, since most people to back it would likely be …. my friends. I can send my friends some postcards without a Kickstarter project.
Then I started talking with a friend about the postcards. I was reminded that some of them are in themed packs (Key West, M. C. Escher, etc.), and that I’d had some idea of doing larger rewards as multiples in the themed packs.
Suddenly, I was talking about writing a story, on postcards. A few sentences at a time would add up to a larger story. Different themes might be larger chunks of the story or … all the point-of-view parts from one character in the story. The story, in its tiny bits and pieces, would be posted here (password protected) so that everyone backing the story knows what’s happening.
Suddenly, I’m excited about this idea again.
Now all I need is a plot.
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Did I remember to tell you about The Plot Whisperer by Martha Alderson? You might be able to test drive it at the library. I don’t know if there’s an e-reader version or not.