July 21 is National Get Out of the Doghouse Day

Are you in the doghouse?

Did something dumb? Mean? Thoughtless?

Do you truly want to be forgiven?
Do you want to kiss and make up?
Does Fido want his house back?

Writers 4 Rent wants to help you write your apology letter.

Call us today and sleep flea-free tonight. (413) 281-0946

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In honor of Independence Day, all apology letters will be $17.76.

June - Effective Communications Month

June is also the traditional month for weddings. Maybe you're still looking for that special someone? If you are, Writers 4 Rent would like to help. We love a good love story, especially the ones with happy endings.

We believe there’s a special someone for everyone and we want to help you find yours.

Lose the ineffective writing style
Find your soul mate

Not sure who you really are? Writers 4 Rent will take the time to help you discover the real you and write (or improve) your personal introduction for the on-line forum you use to meet people.

Please visit our “Contact” page for our telephone number and email address. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!.

Don’t forget – We accept Berkshares, and, for the month of June, we’re discounting your writing project by 10% - that’s a 20% total savings!

More days to remember in June:

Pen Pal Day June 1
Writer to Your Father Day 8
Family History Day 14
Father’s Day June 21

No Fooling

Writers 4 Rent April Special:

There are plenty of things to celebrate in April – Easter, Passover, Patriot’s Day, Secretaries’ Day, and Husband Appreciation Day (yes, really; it’s April 19th this year) and Writers 4 Rent would like to help you celebrate them all in honor of Get to Know Your Customer Day April 17th.

Send us an email answering a short, fun questionnaire here or at our blog and get a $20 gift certificate toward your next writing project. You can use it yourself or give it as a gift. There are no wrong answers, but we might make you think.

All answers are confidential. We promise not to blackmail you, or laugh at you (with you, yes, but never at you) and we never, ever sell any information to anyone even when they beg, threaten and/or whine.

Questionnaire:

Describe yourself with one word (okay, two)

How old are you?
How old do you feel?

What is your favorite color combination?
What is your favorite expression?

Describe the most perfect day you ever had.
Describe your favorite person.

What vegetable do you hate the most? Why?
If you could be any vegetable, which one would it be? Why?

How old were you when you stopped believing in the tooth fairy?

What is the best April Fool’s Day joke you ever played on anyone?

What is the best April Fool’s Day joke you ever had played on you?
Are you still speaking to that fool?

When is the last time you got a letter? (Yes, we mean in the mail)

Do you save your letters?

When is the last time you wrote a letter?

What type of letter do you have the most trouble writing?

Please include your name and address so that we can send your gift certificate to you. We promise not to send you any more mail, ever, unless you ask us to.
Please note: To be fair to everyone, all answers must be complete in order to qualify for your $20 gift certificate.

Our email address:
nofooling@writers4rent.com

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March Special

Writers 4 Rent is Honoring National Write a Letter of Appreciation Week, March 1-7.

Because we at Writers 4 Rent believe that you can never say thank you too much, in too many ways to too many people on too many days, we are thanking our customers with a thank you letter special in the month of March. Who do you need to thank this month?

Who’s always there to listen? Who do you usually take for granted? Your best friend? Your neediest friend? Your “always there when you need her” neighbor?

Who’s done you special favors, and is always there to help, expecting nothing in return? Your spouse? One of your in-laws? A parent or grandparent? Your favorite cousin?

Who makes you look good at work? Your co-workers, your boss, your secretary?

Who makes your life run more smoothly? Your hairdresser, doctor, lawyer, special teacher, librarian babysitter, minister, mechanic or delivery person?

Who’s watching out for your interests? Who’s done something especially noteworthy or selfless? Thank your president, your state rep, your mayor or someone in the military.

Who has the most thankless job? The newspaper editor, a favorite author, the waitress who remembers the way you like your coffee, the store owner who always remembers to smile or the guys who pick up your trash every week.

Who’s gone out of their way to do something nice for you lately? Return the favor and surprise them with a heartfelt letter of thanks.

For the month of March, Writers 4 Rent will help you write your special, heartfelt thank you letter for $17, including one edit or two thank you letters for $25 and, if you’re especially grateful (or have been procrastinating forever) three thank you letters for $30.

Thank you letter (Example #2)

March 15, 2006

Dear Class of 2005 –

The daily trudge to the mailbox was always just another chore to be avoided for as long as possible. So when we recently opened an envelope with a $500 Home Depot gift card, we were shocked. Truthfully, we laughed at first, thinking it was some kind of creative sales pitch.

We’ve finally recovered from our surprise, and we wanted you to know that your hard work and unexpected generosity were very much appreciated. We’ll be able to put your thoughtful gift to good use.

We lost quite a few things in the flood, but we found something so much more important – good neighbors, generous friends and a truly warped sense of humor. These things all made clean up easy and relatively painless.

We wish all of you the best of luck in your future endeavors, and if it’s true that what “goes around comes around,” you will all be blessed with success and happiness. Thanks again.

Sincerely,
Linda & Tim Galok

Thank you letter (Example #1)

The Salvation Army

446 West Housatonic Street

Pittsfield, MA 01201

Dear Ms. Crawford:

Because it seems to have become the rule, rather than the exception, to expect rudeness when dealing with employees of most businesses these days, I wanted to bring to your attention what felt like an extraordinary experience with your staff recently.

When I called your store to make sure you had room to accept donations after a tag sale last weekend, the woman who answered the telephone was pleasant and helpful. When I had further questions, she was happy to answer them.

When we arrived, a young man, whose name was, I believe, Kyle, was at the door to greet us. He went out of his way to help us unload the truck, volunteered to obtain the signature on our receipt, and thanked us several times for our donation. He was not only helpful, but courteous and friendly, as well. In other words, he was an exemplary employee, and we wanted to commend you all and let you know that it was very much appreciated.

Keep up the good work!

Sincerely,

Linda & Tim Galok

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How to Write a Love Letter

Roses are red
Violets are blue
You love me
And I love you too

Was that what you came up with for Valentine’s Day last year?

Your face is red
The air has turned blue
That poem is not
The best you can do.

Valentine’s Day is almost here again. You might have planned to buy another card someone else wrote and another bunch of flowers someone else grew, and another heart shaped box of chocolates someone else made, but that’s what you do every year, and you’re yawning already. This year you want to do something a little more unique and heartfelt and thoughtful. You want try a little harder, sweat a little more and reach a little higher.

When every website ad and television commercial is screaming, “buy something expensive, sparkling, fattening,” you know that, although it’s a nice gesture, it probably won’t be memorable or personal or exceptional. You know that nothing you pick up at the mall on your lunch hour really says “I love you.” You want to take a leap, and put some real effort into your gift this year.

You want to write a love letter. (Trust me, you really do.) There is nothing that will last longer or be treasured more than the words of love you commit to paper. But you can’t write, you say. You don’t know what to say or where to start and you really can’t spell, you whine. It doesn’t matter. Follow these simple directions, and even you can write a beautiful love letter. It isn’t painless, but it is possible. (And, as an added bonus, it doesn’t have to be a gift for Valentine’s Day – this is a gift you can give any day of the year.)

First, don’t worry about style or spelling or grammar at all. You’re not “writing” yet. You’re just going to make lists. Easy. Anybody can make a list. It’s a very effective tool for jump starting your imagination. All you need is paper, pencil and a little bit of time to concentrate.

Think of the person you love. Use all of your senses and imagine this person standing in front of you. Write down every single word or phrase that comes to mind – anything goes – you can edit later. Confident, impish, waiflike, always thinking, twisted, funny (Remember, use your own words – they’ll be better and truer than mine and use details, including eye color, skin texture, unguarded reactions, etc.) Write it all down, leaving nothing out.

Next, what makes your significant other unique? Special? Loveable? Cure? Funny? Unforgettable? Her sock puppet collection? The way he really wants to know the answer when he asks you a question? That she’ll watch football with you without complaining? The way he washes your hair? The things she does for your mother? A special favor he once did for your friend? There are a million things that make this special person unlike anyone else in the world. Add every one of them to your list.

Your third list will be special memories and special moments – not just the best vacation, or your wedding day, or the day you met (include those too) but the time you got lost and ran out of gas out in the middle of nowhere or the most fun you ever had at the grocery store together. What is your favorite place to be with each other? Where is your favorite place to go? Your favorite thing to do together? List it. Include any (and as many) details that you can think of.

Finally, describe this person you can’t imagine living without: Imagine that you’re talking to someone who’s never met him/her. Why is this person your favorite person in the world? What does she look like first thing in the morning? What does he do when he’s happy? How does this person make you feel about yourself? How? Why? Write it down.

Now comes the easy part. All you have to do is put just some of this information together coherently. Choose your favorite story (or his favorite story) and write it using all the details from your lists. All these things you’ve listed should trigger your memory and your imagination and provide all you need for your love letter. Writing the story, including the details, and remembering the little things is your love letter. Perfect spelling doesn’t matter. Grammatical mistakes and punctuation errors won’t be noticeable (unless your S/O is an English professor). Just speak from the heart, and reveal your true feelings. (Remember, you’re going to have more material than you can use so you’ll have to leave some things out; but you can save them for your next letter).

We are our stories, and that’s especially true for couples; the private moments, the silly jokes that only the two of you understand, the way you finish each other’s sentences or make a suggestion just as they were thinking of it – those are the threads that hold the two of you together and remember them in writing is one of the most loving things you can ever do for someone. Remember the stories your parents and grandparents told you about your childhood? Everyone loves stories about themselves – especially when they’re told from the perspective of someone who loves them. Thing you remember (what they were wearing, the expression on their face, funny or poignant things they said) repeated back to them in writing is a love letter – it lasts forever, and it will mean more than an expensive, shiny bauble ever could.

(If you’re still having trouble writing, editing or organizing your lover letter, more help is available at http://www.writers4rent.com/ (see the February special) or by emailing writers@writers4rent.com.