When is the last time you poured yourself into a letter? For some of us, that practice ceased when we stopped writing to Santa Claus. 

Are there ideas stuck inside you? Or thoughts you are afraid to articulate in a page? Then perhaps if you write a letter you can loosen your self imposed bonds.

I review how three authors start their novels with a letter. Listen as three very different characters express their thoughts without censor. How might you do the same for your characters? Or even yourself?

The novels explored in this episode are from:

The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Published in paperback by Penguin. 

Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, translated by Douglas Parmee. Published by Oxford University Press.

Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern. Published by HarperCollins