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How to write a letter she’ll keep.
Short, plain guides for men who don’t write letters. What to say, how to start, how to end, and what to do when you messed up.
Guides
- How to write a love letter.A five-paragraph method that produces a real love letter in twenty minutes: one moment, one thing you notice, one thing you want, and how to open and close it. With examples.
- What to write in a love letter.Stuck on the blank page? Thirty specific things to put in a love letter to your girlfriend or wife, sorted by what you are trying to say, with lines you can adapt.
- Love letter examples.Nine real-sounding love letter examples for a girlfriend or wife: short, long-distance, anniversary, after a fight, just because. Use the shape, not the sentences.
- How to start a love letter.The first line of a love letter is the hardest. Twenty openers that sound like a person instead of a card, sorted by what the letter is for, plus what to avoid.
- How to end a love letter.How to close a love letter without sounding like a greeting card: the last paragraph, the sign-off line, and 25 closings sorted from plain to all-in.
- Apology letter examples.Seven apology letter examples for a girlfriend or wife: after a fight, after lying, after forgetting something, after a breakup, when it was partly her fault. And the four lines that ruin apologies.
- Long-distance letter ideas.Twenty-five things to put in a letter to a long-distance girlfriend or boyfriend, a cadence that keeps the chain going, and how to make the first one count.
- Open-when letter ideas.Fifty “open when” letter ideas for a girlfriend, boyfriend, wife or husband, with a line on what goes inside each one, and how to make the set without buying stationery.
- Handwritten vs typed: does it matter?Yes, and not for the reason people think. What a handwritten letter does that a typed one cannot, when typed is fine, and what to do if your handwriting is the problem.
- How to make a typed letter look handwritten.Handwriting fonts, tracing, a friend with good handwriting, or a machine with a real pen: what each actually looks like on paper, and which one she will not see through.
- How to send a handwritten letter.Everything between the written page and her mailbox: folding, the envelope, the address format, the stamp, how long USPS takes, and the way to skip all of it from your phone.
Letters for a reason
- Send a handwritten letter from your phone.Type your letter online. A machine writes it with a real ballpoint pen on real paper, and we seal it, stamp it and mail it from Abilene, Texas. Postage included.
- A handwritten love letter. Your words, real ink.Write her a love letter on your phone. A real pen writes it in the handwriting you pick, we seal it, stamp it and mail it. In her hands this week, with shipping included.
- Say sorry in a way a text can’t.A handwritten apology letter, written with a real pen and mailed within two business days. What to say, what not to say, and an example you can borrow from.
- A real letter across the distance.Close the miles with something she can hold. Type a long-distance letter on your phone, a real pen writes it, and we mail it anywhere in the US. Postage included.
- An anniversary letter she’ll keep.Flowers last a week. A handwritten anniversary letter lasts. Type it on your phone, a real pen writes it, we mail it in time. Shipping included.
- Open-when letters, written in real ink.Open when you miss me. Open when you can’t sleep. Each letter in your words, written with a real pen, sealed in its own envelope and mailed. Postage included for each letter.
- A letter for no reason at all.No birthday, no fight, no anniversary. Just a real letter in her mailbox on a Tuesday. Type it on your phone, a real pen writes it, we mail it. Shipping included.
- A handwritten letter to your wife.For the days a card isn’t enough: anniversaries, birthdays, after a hard month, or no reason. Type it on your phone, a real pen writes it, we mail it. Shipping included.
- A Valentine’s letter, handwritten.Skip the card aisle. Type her a Valentine’s letter on your phone, a real pen writes it, we seal it, stamp it and mail it. Order early in February to land by the 14th. Shipping included.
- A birthday letter, handwritten.For your girlfriend, your wife, your mom or your daughter: a one-page birthday letter in real ink, sealed, stamped and mailed. Order a week ahead. Shipping included.
- A Mother’s Day letter she’ll frame.Write your mom the letter you have been meaning to write. A real pen writes it on real paper, we seal and mail it. Order by early May. Shipping included.
- Send Grandma a real letter.She still checks the mailbox every day. Give her a reason. Type a letter to your grandmother on your phone; a real pen writes it and we mail it. Shipping included.
- Letters to someone deployed.Mail call is the best part of a deployed day. Type a letter on your phone, a real pen writes it, we seal and stamp it. From a town with an Air Force base. Shipping included.
- The machine that holds the pen.Honest answers: a custom writing machine in Abilene, Texas holds a real ballpoint pen and writes your exact words. Nothing is printed. Here is how it works and whether it is cheating.