what we have to write first in personal letter
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You should always use the salutation " Dear " to begin personal lettters . Follow dear with your recipient name and a comma .
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STEPS TO WRITE A PERSONAL LETTER -
Steps 1-3
Step One: Brainstorm
Before you write the letter take a few moments to consider what you want to say. Is there a specific purpose for the letter? Or are you just saying hi to a family member or friend? If you need to jot down the main ideas of the letter before hand so you don’t leave anything out.
Step Two: Contact info
Many people will put their address and contact information only on the envelope and not on the letter itself. In case your recipient decides to toss the envelope it’s a good idea to put your name and maybe even your address on the upper right hand side of the page. This way if the recipient wants to write back, they don’t have to call you or check their address book to figure out where you live.
Step Three: The greeting
Your greeting goes under the address on the left side of the page. You probably want to skip a line before the greeting. For informal letters the most common greeting is ‘dear’ but you have a lot of options. The greeting you choose depends on your relationship with the recipient, choose one from the list below or make up your own. Make sure you put a comma after the recipients name.
Ex. Dear James, Hello James, My dearest James, My friend James, or simply James,
Steps 4-8
Step Four: Opening paragraph
This may be your first speed bump on the road to a finished letter. For a lot of people it’s hard to know where to start. Relax, your opening paragraph can be brief, you only need a sentence or two to start the letter. It can be as simply asking how the recipient is doing, or mentioning briefly why you are writing the letter.
Ex. How have you been? How is fluffy? Are you still enjoying school? There is so much to tell you I hardly know where to begin.
Step Five: The body
This is the best part of the letter, the reason for writing it at all! Great, so where do you begin? If there really is so much to tell that you hardly know where to begin consider making a list before you get to this point. If you jump from topic to topic too much it may be hard for your reader to follow your thoughts.
You want reading your letter to be as pleasant as possible so it might be nice to put the thoughts into some kind of order that is easy to follow. If your relating the events that have taken place since you last saw the recipient you may want to try chronological order. My personal favourite is listing the least important events first and leading up to the most important event.
Ex. My cat turned twelve, I bought a gorgeous pair of shoes, I finally finished reading that massive novel you suggested, and I hated it, my mom came down to visit last week, and I just got engaged.
Letters fall into a middle ground of formality. Write conversationally. Try to imagine the person you are writing to in front of you and use similar words and phrases you would use with them. Feel free to employ slang, contractions and curses if that’s what they’re used to hearing from you.
Also feel free to insert random things into your letters. Once while writing a letter C.S. Lewis wondered why it was so much easier to draw peoples faces than to draw animals. You don’t have to restrict yourself only to “important” things. Feel free to describe how you misplaced a shoe only to find it later in your dog’s bed, if you think you‘re reader would find that at all interesting. Speaking of interesting it’s also good to remember that it’s more interesting to describe small things in detail, than to describe big things generally.
As far as formatting your paragraphs goes you have options. You can choose to indent the first line of every paragraph. Or you can leave a blank space between each paragraph, or you use both together to allay any possible confusion.
Step Six: Closing paragraph
The closing paragraph is your chance to wrap things up. The is the prefect time to mention a couple of things. You can remind the recipient that you would love to hear back from them, and tell them how.
Ex. Give me a call some time, I would love to hear back from you, Email me when you have a chance
You can also use the paragraph to ask any parting questions.
Ex. How had Fluffy been since the accident? Is Jenny still mad at me? Will you be able to make it to the wedding?
You can also thank the reader for taking the time to read your letter (if you're feeling particularly gracious or formal). Remember that people tend to remember most what they read last, so if you have any particularly punchy parting comments now would be the time to make them.
Ex. If you don’t come to the wedding I’ll have to send my fiancé after you, and he’s big!
Step Seven: Closing line
The closing line can be aligned either left or right (I prefer right as it balances out the opening greeting) it should end in a comma. Underneath should be your name. If you are typing the letter you can type your name or print it off and sign it by hand.
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