Sent: 12.12.07, UK
Notes: Response received!!
Saturday 22 December 2007
Tuesday 20 November 2007
Not forgotten
I know I have been neglecting my letter writing of late. One reason is that I became a bit of a crazy person and tried to cram far too much into my days. Another reason is that quite a few pieces of mail I sent out over the last two months never arrived at their destination, including at least one of the letters that are part of this project. Boo! But I will catch up soon. I have removed the one year time limit to make things easier on me. After all, the important thing is writing and sending the letters, not that they are done by next August.
If by any chance you would like to be the recipient of one of these 100 letters but I don't have your address or even know you, then feel free to contact me! If it would honestly make you happy or at least tickle your fancy, then I will happily pen at least one missive to you! Email me at: fairycakes72 at hotmail dot com. If you are prepared to write back, then all the better! It would also help if you could tell me something, anything about you. It's not easy to write a letter to a TOTAL stranger, not knowing who the heck you're opening up to.
It really does keep me going. And look, I have a new editor who will keep me on the case... as you can see, she can be quite commanding.
If by any chance you would like to be the recipient of one of these 100 letters but I don't have your address or even know you, then feel free to contact me! If it would honestly make you happy or at least tickle your fancy, then I will happily pen at least one missive to you! Email me at: fairycakes72 at hotmail dot com. If you are prepared to write back, then all the better! It would also help if you could tell me something, anything about you. It's not easy to write a letter to a TOTAL stranger, not knowing who the heck you're opening up to.
Thank you to those of you who have been checking back and commenting.
It really does keep me going. And look, I have a new editor who will keep me on the case... as you can see, she can be quite commanding.
Monday 29 October 2007
Tuesday 16 October 2007
Wednesday 3 October 2007
No. 5
Sent: 4.10.07, UK (just as the postal strike was starting...oh dear)
Notes: Response received Jan 08!!! Yay!!
Saturday 22 September 2007
Saturday 8 September 2007
moomin mail!
This week I received this lovely postcard from a friend. I'd sent her a recipe and a postcard and she wrote back! This has made me reconsider the whole "only proper letters will count" rule. I hadn't even included what I sent her as part of this project. And so I am going to be a lot more flexible about this. After all, the reason I'm doing it is to revive good old fashioned snail mail paper correspondence. So we'll see how this proceeds.
Friday 31 August 2007
why am i doing this again?
So, I'm only one week into this and already I'm having doubts. I had a moment of clarity, or crisis, depending on how you want to look at it, when I remembered why I stopped writing letters all those years ago. Even back then, in the time before email and mobile phones, I stopped writing letters because hardly anyone wrote back. People loved receiving letters, but weren't as willing to put pen to paper to reply. I remembered that old feeling of chronic disappointment so clearly this week it made me wonder why I want to make the effort to write all these letters. Surely now, in the age of abrupt and often abbreviated, acronymical e-communication, there will be even less of a chance of people responding?
Also, good correspondence isn't something that can be forced. True, someone has to start it, and it does take two people to keep it going, but it can't be forced. And maybe this project is just a bit too much like forcing. Also, truly good correspondence is rare. So maybe sending 100 letters will be the equivalent of shooting myself in the foot maybe 96 times.
Hence I'm not sure if I will carry on with this, or carry on in a modified format.
We'll see.
If anyone can think of good reasons to carry on, then that might help.
Also, good correspondence isn't something that can be forced. True, someone has to start it, and it does take two people to keep it going, but it can't be forced. And maybe this project is just a bit too much like forcing. Also, truly good correspondence is rare. So maybe sending 100 letters will be the equivalent of shooting myself in the foot maybe 96 times.
Hence I'm not sure if I will carry on with this, or carry on in a modified format.
We'll see.
If anyone can think of good reasons to carry on, then that might help.
Wednesday 22 August 2007
Friday 17 August 2007
Thursday 16 August 2007
the sort of rules
1. I will send 100 personal letters. I will try to do this over one year, but the time limit is not as important as sending the letters.
2. Birthday cards and other greetings cards that I'd normally send out will not count towards the 100. Neither will anything official.
3. None of the recipients' names or addresses will be posted on this site, except for the envelope collective, whose details are already public.
2. Birthday cards and other greetings cards that I'd normally send out will not count towards the 100. Neither will anything official.
3. None of the recipients' names or addresses will be posted on this site, except for the envelope collective, whose details are already public.
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