Probably, the departure of a close friend to the army is one of the few reasons to abandon the usual communication in social networks and turn to the standard form of the epistolary genre. After all, not all soldiers have the opportunity to communicate with you on the Internet. Letters from the army most often come in white envelopes with red edging and the words "military mail", and their authors are waiting for answers to them more than ever.
Necessary
Paper, pen, photographs
Instructions
Step 1
If you are a girl and are writing a letter just to a friend, and not to your boyfriend, then the friend should not misunderstand you. Conditions in different parts are also different, somewhere young people can feel more or less free, they have the Internet, telephone and other joys of life, and somewhere they can feel like in prison. Every message from home, every word, feeling is perceived many times more acutely, so if you do not plan any relationship with your friend, you should not even joke with him. Write in a friendly way, so that he felt support, felt that he was expected at home, but unnecessary worries in the army are not needed at all.
Step 2
Try to be original. If a young person has many friends and a large family, you can imagine how many letters he receives during the year. If each one starts with the words “Hello,…. Writes to you…. Everything is fine with us,”such letters, of course, will still bring joy, but not to the extent that original interesting letters would have done it. You don't have to start every email with a monotonous greeting. Why not start it off with a drawing, photograph, a piece of a poem, or something like that?
Step 3
At the beginning of the letter, try not to post all the recent events at once. Soldiers in the army love to read letters. They don't always have time to sit down and read the letter from start to finish, so they will read it like a book - gradually, piece by piece, which means letting them stretch out the pleasure. It is better to start letters with some neutral things - with the weather, for example, or with events in the world that the soldier may not know about, and leave the most important and interesting things for the second half of the letter.
Step 4
From the very beginning of the letter, try to have a dialogue with your friend. Hello Sasha. How is your health? What's the news? Here we have …”- this style of writing helps the soldier to feel that they are really talking to him, that he is remembered, loved and expected to go home.
Step 5
Most importantly, write letters to your friends. In the army, they really need it.
