The one to the expectant parents?
It turns out it's just as difficult to write the second time as the first time. The biggest problem I'm having is that I'm not a particularly eloquent writer. I haven't honed my writing skill beyond the technical writing I do at work. It's quite different than trying to write a heartfelt letter describing everything about my life. Everything I write seems inane. I can't stand my sentences, yet I don't know how to make it flow better, or how to get some humor in there so I don't seem totally boring.
First draft was a dud. Now I'm re-writing, getting stuck, and generally pissed off at the whole thing.
The worst part is that it has to be handwritten. My handwriting sucks. It looks like a 12-year old boy wrote the letter. Sounds like it to.
Argh.
It has to be handwritten?! Wow: my husband cheerfully calls my handwriting the "scrawl of a serial killer" and he's not wrong.
ReplyDeleteThat's tough. Good luck.
We had to write a letter to adopt out of foster care. Which I thought was quite ironic as the family never got to see the letter. And they didn't exactly get a choice as to which family they got to pick.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could handwrite it and offer the typed version if they actually wanted to read what you wrote :)
Hoping that you can find the flowery writing skills to write about your life.
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