Forwarding a nice Letter to another Pen pal

May 21, 2020

Have done it, have enjoyed it. Have you?

An idea that I had in the past, and for some time used, lightly — that a well written letter could enjoy more appreciation and readership if I could forward it to one or more of my most trusted penpals.

Consider the idea, here's some of what I have in mind.

A particularly good letter, the kind you feel happy to have written, really could be enjoyed by someone who is, like you, a good writer and reader.
The idea is to share a letter with one or two closer pen pals, Friends in fact, even if physically distant.
I would copy the whole original body text;
The open the new recipient's area, and start a new letter to them;
Select a nice stamp, something I do at the beginning of every letter, something relevant to this letters topic, possibly?
click on editor window, and Paste in the complete letter you copied before.
Now read it line by line — and find any personal bits that should not be shared; remove them.
Work your way to the bottom, when done the letter should contain only your own ideas, emotions, experiences, nothing that could embarrass the original pen pal.
We don't share someone else's letter to us — as THEY are the Authors, and own the Copyright to it.

Done that?

At this point we should have a nice letter in the editor, something you want this person to see, read, maybe comment. I have greatly enjoyed their feedback, and the fact that I got more out of the time spent writing the original letter.

Go back to the very top — and introduce the idea, explain it briefly, so the destination person understands (and doesn't feel threatened, that you might do this to one of THEIR letters — make sure they know this will NOT happen)

Here's an example of how an Intro to a shared letter could look like.

Hello again, C.,

It's me again, this time with a copy of a letter I just wrote and sent to a lady I spoke with on Twitter – where we both posted to the Slowly official support account.

She sent me a nice letter, thanking me for advice and help. Here is a reply detailing some of my travels that I feel you would enjoy reading. It brought back good memories.

For your reading pleasure, C. , as I know you enjoy travel stories, and those are all first hand experiences.

Have a good week C. :)

Till next time, dear friend. Big hug!

Y.

-————————( forwarded letter begins )————————

Thanks for the Inspiration, dear L.

A recently used (two days ago in fact) letter — to the friend who inspired me to write a great letter, and to create this, a new Blog, fully focused on Slowly stories, letters, tutorials, suggestions et cetera.

Hello L.!

Just a quick note, I got really inspired by that letter I wrote to you last night. I felt it would be a great piece for a blog page.

And it inspired me to go and get a new one started. :)

I took off any personal info, abbreviated your name to a L only, and made it a pretty page with various stamps and illustrations. I hope you like seeing it. :)

The letter is at : Friends Near and Afar, Letters we Share and Cherish

Sending this with my sincere thanks,

Y. :)

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