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Have ya'll started writing yet?

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If you have, what are you going off of? :O

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Lady/Marquess Emmeline Petty-Fitzmaurice (Robin)

Feb 21, 2021

This was one of the reasons I wanted to establish a "where did we see each other last" drawing room party. Feel free to appropriate my party as letter fodder. I might pre-newsletter write a couple people I know IRL and send to their address just to get into the flow, but I'm waiting for the newsletter to write anything "real" that goes through the GMs. Also, I'm concerned about continuity and sequence. Like, I don't want to write a letter to X and have them receive it at the same time I receive an unrelated letter from them. Then we're creating 2 letter threads and I just think letter writing should be more of a zipper effect. In fact, I wouldn't be against pre-planning who's sending me first round and who wants to get first round from me so that we're switching off rounds. (Are we only getting mail once a month from the GMs @Athena Peters @Athena Peters?)

Duke James Richmond (Greg)

Feb 21, 2021

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but... if have to zipper it, that means we have to pre-arrange everything online in advance. once play begins, this is really supposed to just be epistolary, right? so, if we both send each other a letter, that's a point where we have a double chain. or, maybe the chains can be merged together. I see what you're saying, but I also feel like it's a Sisyphean endeavor to try and ensure that everything is neatly one chain per pairing, and I feel, personally, that I want to see what the newsletter holds. Maybe if you do find that you and a new friend wrote to one another, discuss with them how you want to handle it. Discuss the irony of the situation in your letter and suggest that the letters just be combined. Or endure that you have two different conversations going at once.