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Post by Steph Walford on Aug 14, 2017 22:00:44 GMT
When do you guys tend to write? Do you have a specific time of day? I will advise NEVER to write when tired or not 100% with it as have realised that this poor pen-pal is going to receive a letter of gibberish if not careful. Stephanie put the pen down!!
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Post by sails on Aug 14, 2017 22:03:26 GMT
When do you guys tend to write? Do you have a specific time of day? I will advise NEVER to write when tired or not 100% with it as have realised that this poor pen-pal is going to receive a letter of gibberish if not careful. Stephanie put the pen down!! I don't have a specific time of day, but believe me, I've done the gibberish thing.
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Post by joy52 on Aug 15, 2017 1:07:45 GMT
When do you guys tend to write? Do you have a specific time of day? I will advise NEVER to write when tired or not 100% with it as have realised that this poor pen-pal is going to receive a letter of gibberish if not careful. Stephanie put the pen down!! I write whenever I can. I prefer late at night though ..... when it's quiet.
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Post by millefolium on Aug 15, 2017 1:30:22 GMT
Ideally -- early in the morning, before sun has risen, ahead of the noise of traffic inside and out; with a cup of steaming coffee at hand. In practice -- whenever I can fit in the time edgewise; letters are often stitched together slowly over several days.
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Post by mailartist on Aug 15, 2017 1:59:03 GMT
When do you guys tend to write? Do you have a specific time of day? I will advise NEVER to write when tired or not 100% with it as have realised that this poor pen-pal is going to receive a letter of gibberish if not careful. Stephanie put the pen down!! I don't have a specific time of day, but believe me, I've done the gibberish thing. Oddly enough, though, I sometimes like writing when I have a feverish cold, since I rather hope my gibberish will skew the direction of e. e. cummings, or "The (disassociative) Love Song of J. Alfred Proofrock," and I'll find myself in the canon (or maybe cannon?) of English literature: "There will be . . . time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo." -- T. S. Eliot
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Post by radellaf on Aug 15, 2017 6:26:44 GMT
Part of the problem is I write when I feel inspired rather than regularly. I know it's supposed to be fun, but I find like several other fun things, the enjoyment is in the doing or finishing rather than the starting. Vacations are like this. Most social events. I'm sort of lumping journaling in with letter writing.
While I won't work on high voltages when tired or otherwise impaired, I'll happily pick up a pen if I feel motivated. I don't _think_ I've written anything incoherent, or at least no one has complained. I do usually read what I've written before sending it.
I prefer to write after dark with nobody else in the room. In the quiet, maybe with a hot beverage. I have the time recently, but when I was busy I remember it being frustrating having only maybe 4 hours between getting home and going to sleep to handle: relaxing, making dinner, quality time with spouse, and personal stuff. An hour to write was hard to come by except on weekends.
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Post by Mia on Aug 15, 2017 12:24:25 GMT
I will often start a letter when I am having a nice cuppa in a cafe during the day. I want to show that letter writing is still alive. Someone came up to me when I was writing one letter in a pub, to ask if I was a teacher. When I am at home, I like to write in the evenings, not so much in the daytime, although I have written out in the garden (front, or even in the greenhouse in the back).
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Post by sgtstretch on Aug 15, 2017 15:10:35 GMT
If I have some free time at work, I sometimes will start a letter then, but the majority of my letter writing is done in the evening at home. Sometimes its just me, but other times I'll write while we are playing cards.
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Post by blushinpen on Aug 15, 2017 16:49:33 GMT
I also advise, not to write a letter while having Rowan Atkinson on the screen in the background! I had so many typos in one letter, it was embarrassing. But I had already written so much, that I just blamed Blackadder.
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Post by Mia on Aug 15, 2017 17:09:20 GMT
I also advise, not to write a letter while having Rowan Atkinson on the screen in the background! I had so many typos in one letter, it was embarrassing. But I had already written so much, that I just blamed Blackadder. I'm sure your apo-logies would be accepted.
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Post by Steph Walford on Aug 15, 2017 22:43:10 GMT
Oddly enough, though, I sometimes like writing when I have a feverish cold, since I rather hope my gibberish will skew the direction of e. e. cummings, or "The (disassociative) Love Song of J. Alfred Proofrock," and I'll find myself in the canon (or maybe cannon?) of English literature: "There will be . . . time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo." -- T. S. Eliot Rather inspiring Thankyou xx
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Post by Steph Walford on Aug 15, 2017 22:45:01 GMT
I will often start a letter when I am having a nice cuppa in a cafe during the day. I want to show that letter writing is still alive. Someone came up to me when I was writing one letter in a pub, to ask if I was a teacher. When I am at home, I like to write in the evenings, not so much in the daytime, although I have written out in the garden (front, or even in the greenhouse in the back). Finding it so sad how the art of letter writing is dying rapidly!
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Post by radellaf on Aug 17, 2017 5:07:18 GMT
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Post by distractedmom on Aug 17, 2017 21:12:23 GMT
I don't have a specific time of day, but believe me, I've done the gibberish thing. Oddly enough, though, I sometimes like writing when I have a feverish cold, since I rather hope my gibberish will skew the direction of e. e. cummings, or "The (disassociative) Love Song of J. Alfred Proofrock," and I'll find myself in the canon (or maybe cannon?) of English literature: "There will be . . . time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo." -- T. S. Eliot You took my right back to high school with that one. That last line "In the room the women come and go/talking of Michelangelo" was like a time machine. Wow
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Post by distractedmom on Aug 17, 2017 21:15:30 GMT
The hubby often brings work home, so while he putters away in the evening on his laptop, I will write letters. Or start them at least, and then I like to finish after I get the kids out the door in the morning,
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