Does Size Matter? How Many Pages Are Your Letters?

[Bookman]

I have a handful of people on my regular delivery circuit. They get four to seven letters a year. Others get them when news breaks or I get an impulse or I get a letter from him/her/them. I scan all my letters into my computer. I always use 8½x11 or A4, almost always both sides. The letters usually range between eight and twelve pages. I turn everything into a story, and so my letters are small true-story collections. The last letter I wrote was sixteen pages. But it had stories backed up from December.

[writedude]

thank you note are typically concise with me, letters I can get pretty wordy in, 6-8 pages easily, but it seems to depend on what/whom I am writing to. If it's something to a friend it's easy and normally long, an acquaintance is normally short and too the point. Just wondering, if one was writing a letter of sentiment to a friend at the end of a school year, how long would your letter be?

[cellmatrix]

Number of pages does not necessarily mean a longer letter - it depends on your nib size and writing style too. If you write with broad nibs and a big expansive writing style, then it might take you two or three pages to say the same thing as one page with a finer nib and more compact writing style.

Edited May 29, 2014 by cellmatrix

[TheModernGent]

Typically about 3 A4 sized pages, sometimes more, sometimes less.