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# Letters I Haven't Sent
- URL: https://blogga.themesbykyle.com/letters-i-havent-sent/
- Published: 2024-05-12T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-17T14:32:18.000Z
- Description: On the drafts that taught me more than the ones I mailed.
- Author: Blogga Admin
- Tags: Essays

I have a folder of letters that were never sent. A few are angry and most are tender, and all of them were written in order to find out what I thought.

The act of addressing someone, even someone who will never read it, changes the sentences. They get clearer and kinder and a little braver. I think this is why the best essays so often read like letters: the writer has a person in mind.

If you are stuck on something you are writing, try beginning it *Dear*, and then cross that out when you are done.