A well worded letter of condolence conveys your unsaid emotions and concern to the reader in an effective manner. Your written words of sympathy for the sad person will be more supportive than a generic condolence card. It expresses your tribute to the deceased and concern to the bereaved. The...
Delegated writing occurred when illiterate or partly literate individuals wanted to keep in contact with relatives at a distance and had to rely on the assistance of professional or social scribes. The details of this process and the role played by the sender of a letter and its actual, ...
The Perfect Query Letter The Pub Board - Your Worst Enemy? Eight Best Prep Steps Prior to Agent Query 131 posts Crucial Self-Editing Techniques - Don't be Hostage to a Line Editor By Chief Editor, 3 hours ago The Short and Long of It Our veteran of ten thousand submissions, Walte...
A 2003 book review in the Times introduced me to Matthiessen’s most famous book, American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (1941), describing it as a love letter to his life-partner, the painter Russell Cheney. September 2024 marked the 100th anniversary of...
A letter to an acquaintance who wanted tips for restarting journal writing after 20 years. How to Use a Journal to Remember a Recently-Deceased Relative When a loved one dies, you might wish to remember the person by writing about your experience in a journal, writing about the deceased, an...
Would have those movies been a success? Would they have been such a passionate and honest love letter to Tolkien’s masterpiece? Would they still be talked about today? Or even re-watched by millions to this day? I don’t think so!
“Sometimes he dreamt he held her; that he would turn in bed and she would be there. But she was gone and he was old. Nearly seventy. Only cool paint met his fingers. “Ma très chère . . .” Darkness started to fall, dimming the paintings. He felt the crumpled letter in his po...
trace back to their Irish heritage. But the moment I realised I wanted to write the novel was when I discovered Mary Bell met them on their honeymoon: Charlotte commented positively on her appearance and manners in a letter. Mary would go on to marry Charlotte’s widower ten years later....
My memoir,See You Later, reveals several lifelong secrets of mine, one being that my deceased husband spoke to me after he died. I want to give the after death moment to those who need it most, because some require “proof” of heaven existing, and I have that “proof.” ...
In the letter, he asked his daughter to one day do something extraordinary that would restore Camden to the way he once knew it. The tragic death, or possibly murder, of her parents that weekend would instill the motivation for her to later carry out her father’s wishes for her hometown...