Literary Love Letters

Below are samples of some student writing when given the assignment:  Write a literary love letter.  It can be about anything that has to do with writing and literature.

Dear Love Letter,
This is to my FANBOY!  You can be a nightmare and wonderful to me.  I think of you wherever I go, even when I'm in the slammer.  Don't get me wrong.  I love grammar, but I think it's time to say goodbye.  I'm just the verb kinda gal.


Dear Commas,
I have a love-hate relationship with you.  You make things so much easier to read, but yet I still never am able to use you correctly.  I hope we can figure things out in our relationship.
Love,
Yours Truly,
A Student

Dear Adjectives,
I love how you express my thoughts.  Making my sentences more exciting.  My writing would be so boring without you.  I don't know what I would do if you weren't in my life.
XOXO,
A Student

Dear Adjectives,
You are the words that describe anything and everything.  From describing my soft blankets to an exhausting run to a freezing shower.  You spice up any sentence and make it more interesting.
Yours,
A Student

The Apostrophe

A symbol to remind you that there's more to see.  

Used to show possession over other objects or people.

Used also for contractions in everyday language

Confusing everybody with the million dollar question over the meaning of life.

Thoughts about writing ...
The phrase "I don't know what to write about" has a very special place in my heart.  Partially because I didn't know what to write about now, but also because in elementary school I always struggled to start papers. 

A Hate Letter to Commas
Oh how I hate commas. Yeah, sure.  They might help at times but also a lot of times they're just annoying little marks on a paper and they always be actin' like they're such a huge deal.  Like, calm down.  Periods are 1000% more important.

Dear Jane Austen,
How I would love to know what it was like being a female author in England.  Dd you face oppression?  Sexism?  What were your ideals?  Moral standings?  How was life cruel to you?  How many of your stories were inspired by true events?  Please write back soon,
Love,
Pride and Prejudice Lover

Dear Grammar,
I love you so much.  You're the best think in the worlds.  You make things so much better.
Love,
A Student

I like punctuation.  It is a great way to express emotion.  Grammar is cool, too.  But I dislike commas a lot because I never know when to use them.

Dear Grammar,
Why do you have to be so hard?  Even if I memorize you on a flashcard.  Worksheet after worksheet every day.  I wish you could go away.  Adjectives, adverbs, and verbs all blur.  I don't like you at all.  I'm sorry I' going to fail.
Sincerely,
Me


Dear Dog Food Company,
This is your biggets eater, Clifford the Big Red Dog.  Ia am writing to you in regards to how much your food has benefitted me.  I mean, 2 bags per meal is a little much, but it's delicious every time.  Thank you for being a loyal supplier of food.  I love it.  I will forever continue to purchase your products.  They are delicious and keep this oversized and primary-colored dog healthy.
Yours,
Clifford

Oh Exclamation points, why do you exits?  You have no reason to exist!  Why are you alive?  Maybe you're just misunderstood.  I don't know.

Oh nouns!  I love that you describe a person, place, or thing.  

The way you make a sentence is just beautiful.  

When I see you on the page, my face just lights up.  

When I use you in a sentence, you just make the sentence make sense.

Dear Exclamation Points,
I love that you show when I am yelling at someone and that I am passionate about something.
Yours,
A Student

Pencils,

They can be intricate or plain

Dark or light

They can make thoughts come alive

they can draw and write

And ease your mistakes

They are brilliant and great

Until they run out of lead

Peace, how I love you
A beautiful gift from God
Peace, you bring joy and love into my life
Peace, you overcome every anxiety
Peace, you are a connection between my heart and the Lord's.

Dear commas,
I really don't know if this is a love or hate letter.  Sometimes you are very helpful, but other times you make me go crazy.  In some sentences, you're pretty helpful, but in others I find you quite useless.  It's hard to know where to put you, and if I've put too many or too few. Although you are difficult, still sometimes you bring clarity and understanding.  Oh commas.  Oh commas.  I just really don't know!

Nouns,
With every sentence I breathe, I speak of you.  You make my sentences flow with ease.  Not a day goes by when I don't think about you.  My every thought is filled with you.
Love,
A Student

Dear "Things,"
I have a love/hate relationship with you.  You are the easiest word to use, but you always give me a -1 point on papers.  Due to your incompatibility in my papers, I spend hours on end trying to somehow replace you. Thankfully, you are very easy to use in my everyday life but don't cooperate in my papers
Warmly,
A Student

Oh Prepositions!  How wonderful you are

Set apart from the rest,

Like a bright shining star

No matter what they say, whether yay or nay

You will always be the subject of my praise

My FANBOYS,
Oh conjunctions, how I love thee.  M FANBOYS, so useful and wonderful to me!  Every sentence I write, you never leave me.  If I don't have you, my sentence can no longer be,
Always,
Your dear Love

Literary Love Letters, 2017

Below are submissions by the Writing 1 class for the Quick Write prompt to write "Literary Love Letters."
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Ode to Verbs

Verbs are tantalizing.  One thing I cannot stand is too many boring, commonplace verbs.  When I make my characters talk in a story, they may have joked, puzzled, suggested, noted, or giggled, but never "said."  Said is among the greatest literary banes in my existence.  Only those who are lazy write “said” more than two times in a row.  A good verb is truly able to lighten up any sentence.

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Dear Parenthesis,

     I love how you make my life complete, even thought you only sit on a piece of sheet.  You help me know what is important, even if it does not seem worth it.  You can be in the beginning, middle, or end of a sentence, and you give everything a certain essence.

     Oh wonderful parenthesis, you are always written so fine, I would love it if you would be my Valentine.

Forever and always,

Yours

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To Essays,

I love writing essays because they inform, entertain, give life stories, and more.  They are also pretty easy to write for me.  I love writing stories about my life and about friends and family. The you can add dynamics like the right punctuation and all that fun stuff.  I love essays.

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To Questions Marks,

I love question marks.  I love it when people ask me things if I know what it is, and I also like to ask lots of questions.  Question marks and I could become friends.

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To the Puns of the World,

You have so many thoughts and can make anyone happy.  Some may hate you and would punish others if they talked about you.  But doughnut worry about what otters may think about you.  For I will always bee happy to talk to ewe.

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My Dear Commas,

I love you so much.  Thank you for all your hard work you do.  I love how you make things flow together.  How you make things make sense and lovely.  I couldn't life without you.

Love you!

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Dear Adjectives,

My excessive love for you is shown through my long, exciting novel.  In which you are quite commonly use.  You are far more enjoyable than diabolical complex sentences and their evil subordinating conjunctions.  I love you even more than compound-complex sentences though they do add flair to my writing.  Still, they are like a 49er without bacon when lacking you. I find you in Hallmark movie titles, Pokemon cards, my book, and more.  I love you, Adjectives.

Your Beloved

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I love, with steaming intensity, to dislike you, comma.  You are a nagging, ceaseless, confusing part of grammar that I always will find on a rough draft of mine.  For some reason which I am unaware of at the moment, you are probably the most confusing part of grammar, yet used very frequently.  I truly have feelings for disliking you, and you have changed me forever.

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Oh ". . ." how I love your dramatic pause.  The suspence you add to a simple story excites me.  You ". . ." can make any story a mystery.  You can add som much life to a story.  The conversations we make with you are, so endearing, so memorable to me.

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Dear Mr. Period,

I want to express to you the deep adoration I feel for all that you do to make a sentence complete.  You know it is my opinion that the periods importance is overlooked.  However, I believe that you are as important as the subject or the verb.  You are a very valuable part of all writing.  I hope that all good writers will never overlook you, but place you with pride at the end of each sentence.

Sincerely Yours

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Dear Which/Witch,

You confuse my life daily.  When writing to my grandma, I may accidentally call her a witch, when I am just trying to ask which airline she is coming on.

Confused

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Dear Grammar,

I don't like you.  It's not me.  It's you.

Writing 1 Student

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Literary Love Letters, 2017

Each year, either just before Valentine's Day or right after, I assign the students to write a "Literary Love Letter" as their Quick Write.  Below are this year's contributions.

To the Jason Bourne trilogy:
You always keep me entertained.  It is never a dull moment with them.  The suspense, action, and drama keep them interesting.
~Your admirer

To Free Writing:
I love writing free write stories!  To me they are fun, exciting, passionate, even.  If I could, I would write them for as long as I could.  Sometimes I would stay up into the night when I had a good story going.  I love them almost enough to spend the rest of my life doing them.  Although, eventually I think I would get tired of it.
~ Your admirer

Dear Space,
It is hard to imagine what reading would be like if you didn't exist.  Words would just be  jumble of letters all strung together.  Nothing would be legible.  Iwouldbe writingsomethiglikethis.  So, space, spacing -- whatever you want to be called, your job is important.
~ A thoughtful student.