Quick Penpal Post

Sorry about double-posting, but I didn’t want to put personal stuff in the Library Loot post. :) Anyway, the brilliant Emily had a great idea of pen pals last week, and she has given her blessing to steal it. So go read her post really quickly.

Back? Great! Here’s the passage that had me thinking “You’re so right, Emily!”:

It sounds as if they covered almost every subject imaginable, carried on “friendly” arguments with each other, and shared book recommendations. Doesn’t that sound like fun? Maybe I’m weird, but I want someone who will write letters like that with me.

Funnily enough, I’d been thinking about making a New Year’s resollution to write letters, but I was stymied as to who I’d exchange letters with. So glad Emily’s smarter than me! lol

I’m stealing her general outline, with one change

1) Choose 5 pen pals for 2009
2) Promise to write each pen pal a real letter at least once a month
3) Promise not to resort to email substitutions
4) Promise that you will get twelve genuine, pen-to-stationery letters in your mailbox from me
5) Write a blog post at the end of the year about my experiences with my pen pals

(I actually find it much easier to write letters than type them, hence my change to #4).

So, if you’d like to be my penpal (sudden thought: oh dear, I hope there isn’t a deafening silence following this post), you have to be willing to write me at least one letter a month as well. That’s the only requirement-I’m perfectly happy to mail letters abroad, to long-time readers or people who have never left a comment, to bloggers or non-bloggers. Like Emily, if I get more than five offers, I’ll do a random drawing. And if you don’t get drawn, I encourage you to simply do your own penpal post! We’re already saving the paper-based book, now maybe it’s time we save paper-based stationary. ;)

And if no one wants to be my penpal, I’ll totally understand (I know most of you have insanely busy lives)!