Post A Secret Prompt

Hi guys! Join the special PostSecret prompt! Work on strangers' secrets! Give them life, color, form, emotion, image, narrative, rhetoric, humor-- or anything you can think of!

Simply go to the workshops files of this ygroup, and click the 'post a secret prompt' folder!


What: "Post A Secret" online prompt
Word limit: No limit, as short or long as you like
Due: August 31
Submit: via email at WSWorkshops1011@yahoo.com

INTRODUCTION
This activity is going to use post cards submitted to the original POSTSECRET.com as prompts for writing. You are free to write fiction, creative non-fiction, drama or poetry.

WHAT IS POSTSECRET.com?
An online community where they invite people from all around the world to send creative postcards with their SECRETS on them. check it out: http://www.postsecret.com/

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Download the selection of postcards by taking finalcopy.zip. Pick one - three postcard you would like to use / deal with. A maximum of 3 postcards can be used for one writer.

2. The post card's message may be used as a theme for your work, as an actual secret that is revealed, or as an event that unfolds. You are free to interpret, add to or embellish the secret as you wish. Bonus points for including the images found in your post card.

3. You are given until the end of August to write your story down. Edit and submit the completed draft for compilation by August 31. Remember the number of your post card.

4. bonus: Include your "story plan"-- your developing conflict / premise / theme, some character sketches, other ideas, and what you wanted to achieve.

SEND TO:
WSWorkshops1011@yahoo.com

WITH THE SUBJECT OF:
postcard#_lastname (ie. postcard4_villanueva)
multiple postcards: postcard#-#-#_lastname

DOCUMENT TITLE: storytitle.doc ; storytitleplot.doc (for bonus)