Can you write an editor’s letter?
Oh, hi friends!
I love reading editors’ letters in the front of magazines.
The editor-in-chief usually describes what you’re about to read, stringing together a bunch of unrelated stories in order to create an umbrella or organizing principle for the issue. There has to be some sort of logic for why all these features and front-of-book pieces are living next to each other, right? (There usually isn’t, but they somehow make it work.)
I started to think…wouldn’t it be interesting to write your own letter from the editor?
What would your letter look like for this week? Or this coming month? How would you describe how your individual plans and obligations relate to each other?
Instead of being reflective on what just happened, you’d be forced to consider what is about to happen — and describe it in a way that makes sense to a stranger. Kind of a fun exercise. If you give it a shot, let me know how it goes.
You need space for your ideas.
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"Looking back, Mr. Simon wrote with a still starry-eyed joy of his decision to embark on a playwriting career: 'For a man who wants to be his own master, to depend on no one else, to make life conform to his own visions rather than to follow the blueprints of others, playwriting is the perfect occupation. To sit in a room alone for six or seven or 10 hours, sharing the time with characters that you created, is sheer heaven.
'And if not heaven,' that master craftsman of the well-timed joke added, 'it’s at least an escape from hell.'"
In 1966, Neil Simon had four hit shows on Broadway! Think about that for a second.
He died Sunday at the age of 91. RIP to a man who made me laugh.
This new Nike ad featuring Serena Williams as a young girl gives me chills. “This is you at the US Open,” says her dad. And of course, she got there.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara