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Eat Your Heart Out John Grisham…
by Jim Green
Who says you can't develop your own distinctive writing style?
It's easy.
You just look your reader straight in the virtual eye, speak your piece, and let it all hang out.
The erudite little narrative below has it all: drama, passion, empathy, sympathy, and lashings of information.
It is copied verbatim from a tattered old letter I discovered among the effects of a lately deceased uncle. He served in World War 2 and must have carried this extraordinary missive around on his person for over 50 years. I reckon a quick shufti now and then banished the blues.
The terse, tired looking communiqué is dated 12 May 1943 and it reads as follows…
dear son
your father has died in the last week and it was raining at the funeral and aunty maggy had her hand up the vicars cassock to keep his feet dry but his chilblains got worse and we're holding a prayer meeting for them tonite. hope you are all rite up the front and this reaches you as it leaves me
and oblige
your mother and widow
Anyway, as I was saying John…
Jim Green is a bestselling author with a string of niche non-fiction titles to his credit including ‘Starting Your Own Business' (How To Books ISBN 1-85703-859-2) and ‘Starting an Internet Business at Home' (Kogan Page ISBN 0-7494-3484-8 - currently ranking No.3 at Amazon.com out of 27,376 competing titles). His tutorial is available at
http://www.writing-for-profit.com
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