Typist reverts to pen and paper
Cats: culture|I recently penned a letter, a real live paper-and-ink letter with the date on top and a *Dear…* opener.
It’s part of the Artful Penpals project started by Shelagh of Alice in Paris.
The project is designed to revive the art of letter writing.
It works like this: people send a short bio to Shelagh by a certain date and she matches you up with a penpal, based on your interests and experience.
You then write them a letter. Mine was a six-pager front and back with little *thought bubbles* peppering the margins.
The person I wrote lives in Reno Nevada. She’s a writer, editor, blogger, photographer and traveller. Sounds V. interesting.
I used to be a dedicated letter writer and even taught myself Italic cursive in order to make my letters more attractive. My italic has declined in recent years, probably because I don’t write much anymore.
I’m posting my letter today. Can’t wait to hear back.
Thanks to Shelagh for putting this project together.
July 7th, 2009 at 11:10 am
You are so cool.
July 7th, 2009 at 11:40 am
That sounds vaguely familiar. So when you made a mistake did you ’strike through’, liquid paper, eraser, or write over?
July 7th, 2009 at 11:45 am
I love penning letters, and receiving tangible mail. Sounds like you’d make a great pen pal!
July 7th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
As long as you don’t call me “English” and ask me to help you raise a barn.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
I can manage a small piece of paper, or a card. Any longer than that, and there is no way anybody, myself included, is going to be able to read that writing.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
I trust that you then scanned the letter and saved it as a pdf.
Your penpal sounds vaguely like someone I know in Reno, except for the letter writing part :}
July 7th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
A six pager, front and back? You are an overachiever!
Doc
July 8th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Monkey, so are you
Dick, interesting question, I scribbled over it with the pen, looked terrible, kept looking for a delete button
Allison, I was a great pen pal once, but not so much now
Cormac, awwww, please, that barn in the back yard really needs raising
July 8th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Barbara, just receive – as Allison said – tangible piece of mail and if it happens to have fantastic music in it, well that makes up for the longness!
Chance, I wonder, email on my GT hotmail and i’ll give you her blog, don’t want to give out names here.
Doc, actually, a three pager front ant back to make six pages