Looking around during my local Remembrance Day service, I was struck by how many ex-servicemen and women had turned up on their own. This got me thinking about the line, ‘All the lonely people’, in Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles, and that got me thinking about how I could do something positive to help all the lonely people.
If one writer wrote a letter to one lonely person, not only would that show them that somebody cared, but it would open a line of communication. Stories would be exchanged, and history would not be lost to the mists of time and forgetfulness. By sharing stories, ideas would be created, characters would be formed and short stories, or maybe even the odd novel or two, would be born! All of that from just one letter! I know that postage is expensive, but for that price, you get a wealth of knowledge, ideas, characters, settings, in fact, everything that a writer could possibly want, and you get to make someone feel loved and valuable in the process! Now, imagine if every subscriber to Writing Magazine wrote to one person.