Letters of the famous people of the past: poets, writers, philosophers and politicians, quite often become the real literary monuments of an epistolary genre capable to impress even the most exacting readers. The ability to express the feelings in the letter is almost completely forgotten by beautiful language now, and that the letter which you will send to a subject of the feelings will be more valuable.
Instruction
1. Be most sincere. Do not try to describe what does not exist actually, when business concerns feelings, any deception is very quickly opened. On the contrary, absolute honesty almost always bribes the reader, forcing it to concern you most seriously.
2. Before writing the letter, read available romantic correspondence of the famous people, it will help you to present more fully possible composition of your text, its emotional component, figurative ranks. It is possible to borrow especially successful turns and metaphors or, having inspired, to think up the images. However avoid obvious loans, for example, you should not quote verses by Pushkin, giving them for the.
3. Do not use officialese and bureaucratic expressions, for example "the following letter I intend to tell you …". It looks as the parody to the romantic text therefore the probability that your addressee will consider the letter a silly joke is high. Try to avoid the overloaded offers, participial and verbal adverb phrases. Short simple phrases can tell much more about your feelings and experiences.
4. Write without mistakes. Any recognition, even the most sincere, will strongly lose in efficiency if it is stated with gross spelling mistakes and confusedly. You are not lazy to write the draft copy, to check it by means of the dictionary or special computer programs, and already then write absolutely.
5. It is very important to re-read written before sending. Perhaps, you want to change some phrase or an unsuccessful turn. At last, write the letter so that it could not compromise you or your addressee if gets into strange hands. Avoid intimate imaginations and details, do not report important secrets and secrets.