Do you write a personal holiday newsletter?

 

Professional writers produce plentiful publications of all sorts. In a given week, we might crank out a newsletter, a pile of advertising copy, a media packet, a few feature articles, an executive speech, and a corporate report. In our spare time, we may dig out an unfinished book manuscript and pound out a chapter or two.

By the time December rolls around, how many of us take the time to create a personal holiday newsletter?

 Sure, some writers go all-out and come up with creative layouts and designs, plugging family news into columns and sidebars. Others design photo montages or collages to accompany the updates they write about their clan.

 I’ve done all of those things over the years, even including an original holiday poem on occasion. But that was years ago.

That was before life turned extra busy.

 What’s more, it was before social networking kept families and friends updated (with news and pictures) all year round. So I pretty much let the whole holiday newsletter thing slip.

 This Christmas season, I tapped out a simple greeting letter (including a few tidbits of family news and a smattering of tiny photographs) for a select group of relatives who do not participate in social networking.

 

I printed and mailed five copies.

Everyone else will be heartily and festively greeted electronically. Hey, if we are already current with one another, the traditional holiday newsletter seems somewhat superfluous to me.

 But I know plenty of writers who persist in producing these seasonal volumes. And I enjoy receiving and reading them.

 It’s really just a judgment call, probably based mostly on the availability of time, initiative, and inspiration.

 

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