How to Write a Hard Letter

Tips and illustrations for composing a difficult email, SMS, blog, tweet, or status update...

The current issue of World magazine arrived in our mail today. I looked at the photos on the table of contents page, matching them up to their articles. Then I looked at the two-page spread with photos and quotes and stuff. Then I looked at the two articles in the back.

The last article didn’t interest me enough to read it. (Sorry, Marvin!)

But the next-to-the-last article (yes, I’m a Seu fan, I confess), I read. Until I got to this line:

You will do well if you write your next hard letter that way too.

I read no further. (She wrote no further; what’s a reader to do?!)

Dear Philemon | Andree Seu Peterson | World Magazine

Hmmm. I’ve had to write some hard things of late, so the article really connected for me. I’ll have to reread it. Twice at least. Not because I read some principle or concept I’d never thought of before. But I read some very good reminders.

OK, so I gave you the last line of the article. Here’s the subtitle:

Paul’s epistle on behalf of Onesimus is a model for letter-writers

Be sure to read what lies between those two lines: Dear Philemon.

As for me, I’ve got to make some adjustments (if not deletions and additions) to something I wrote early this morning…

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