To write, or not to?.. write!
The ombudsman of a leading daily from Washington DC says that letters to the editor written in just 100 words have better chances of being published.
ALL SAID and done I loved reading ‘How to be a Man or a Woman, of Letters’ by Andrew Alexander.The piece has made me a wiser man and the moral of the story is -just don't write a letter to Washington Post. Period!
If you feel like writing and you have material enough to keep your reader engaged from front flap to back flap; just write a book. It will be a lot easier to publish than a letter to the editor of Washington Post. Andrew Alexander advises a potential writer to just pen a view in 150 words, 100 words will be better as it will stand a good chance of being published. My God, in just 100 words I can catch only Osama bin-Laden. Forget his cronies of the Al Qaida. Taliban is absolutely out of the question.
My 100 words may mean nothing to me because they will be incoherent, disjointed and talk of chalk and cheese simultaneously. It may mean that Logic will call quits owing to paucity of space. The space in Washington Post was gifted to some bizarre story filed from Timbuktu and merited the attention of the Editor. A letter to the Editor naturally had no chance of seeing the light of the day in print on a page of Washington Post.
Never mind this failure. Tomorrow will be another day. The sun will rise in the East again. It may be brighter. That will be my day. That will be the day of my letter to the editor of Washington Post. I may really see it in print, at least in my dreams.
Saying cheers to Andrew Alexander for all the knowledge on a letter to the editor not exceeding 100 words, I now sign off.
Saying cheers to Andrew Alexander for all the knowledge on a letter to the editor not exceeding 100 words, I now sign off.
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