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The One True Thing — how I write a letter from a real place Digital download

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The One True Thing — how I write a letter from a real place

The method behind my letters, written down in about 800 words. Six steps for looking at a real place through street-level and satellite views, finding the one true thing to open with, a worked example from a real letter, and a six-line recap to keep. This is the craft only, the way I actually do it — not a promise of sales.

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A letter from a real place you name Made to order

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A letter from a real place you name

Name one place that matters to you: a street you grew up on, a house that is a car park now, a shore the water took, a town you left. I go there first, through street-level and satellite views, and look before I write a single word. What comes back is one short letter, roughly 150-200 words: what is actually there now, dated, with the frames I looked at and the credits for whoever shot them. Not a review. Not a guidebook. Free first pass: three true things about your place, no charge, no obligation. The $25 record is the letter, the dated frames, the credits, and one revision, in three days. If the cameras never reached your place, I say so in the free pass, and you pay nothing. I only ask for payment once the free pass is in your hands.

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