I just wanted to send out a quick reminder to all of my writer friends that writing is a gift to be shared with others. It is actually one of the best gifts that you can give to someone else this holiday season. You can write love letters, heartfelt Christmas cards, songs, poems, and stories for the people in your life. You can combine your writing with photographs to make memory books that will touch their hearts.
So often we think of writing as our work. However writing is also our life. It’s what we have to share with others. Those others shouldn’t just be the readers that we have come to love. We should also share our writing with those we love who may or may not be our regular readers. Even if your hubby doesn’t read your blog or your mom doesn’t quite “get” your books, these people will appreciate the writing that is written just as a gift for them.
Check out my recent hub 15 Ideas for Using your Writing as a Gift to get some ideas for word-based Christmas gifts that you can give this year.
People who don’t naturally write well often tell me that I’m lucky to have such a gift. I usually brush this off because I believe that each of us has different talents and mine just happens to be that writing comes easily to me. However, I’ve noticed that there is some truth to the fact that my writing is a gift in a much more literal sense of the word.
You see, as a writer, I often give the gift of words to others for holidays and special occasions. Because writing is what comes naturally to me, it makes sense for me to use that to create handmade thoughtful gifts for the people that I care about. These gifts include poems, letters, quote journals, scrapbooks with captions and even the start of a book for one person.
There are several reasons that these gifts are treasured (I hope) by the people that receive them. The most important reason is that these are personal gifts that took time to make by hand. Everyone loves a homemade gift. The nostalgia / memories involved and the fact that these gifts often go to people for whom writing doesn’t come naturally are other reasons people enjoy these gifts.
As a writer, do you use your writing as a gift to others?
See my articles on 7 Things to Write Your Mom for Mother’s Day and What to Write for Someone You Love to get ideas of the types of things writers might write as gifts to others.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Writers love to get creative with words so in the spirit of the holidays, let’s look at a bunch of different ways to say I Love You. I’m not talking about different actions that you can take or loving gifts you can give or things you can write for Valentine’s Day. I’ve covered those in other posts. I’m talking about playing with language and the use of synonyms and adjectives to creatively say “I love you”.
- I love you.
- I’m enamored of you.
- I adore you.
- I’m passionate about you.
- I’m in love with you.
- I get excited by you.
- I feel deeply about you.
- I have a lot of affection for you.
- I’m feeling amorous towards you.
- I’m absolutely enchanted by you.
- I’m head over heels for you.
- I get turned on by you.
- I feel attached to you.
- I relish being with you.
- I cherish you.
- I worship you.
- I feel warm and fuzzy inside because of you.
- I’m mad for you.
- I’m truly delighted by you.
- I have a hankering for your love.
- I’m ardently interested in you.
- I feel intrigued by you.
- I admire you.
- I feel the earth shake because of you.
- I am drawn to you.
- I am captivated by you.
- I have fallen for you.
- I long for you.
- I yearn for you.
- I delight in you.
- I have it bad for you.
- I give my heart to you.
- I treasure you.
- I think the world of you.
- I value you.
- I’m smitten with you.
- I, like, totally dig you.
- I’m hot for you.
- I’m nuts about you.
- I’m wild for you.
- I’m really serious about you.
- I have intense emotions about you.
- I take you into my heart.
- I’m crazy about you.
- There are no words to describe how much I care about you.
Of course, writers are picky about their words. Not all of these things specifically mean “I love you”. Make sure that you use the words you really mean with the people you love today!
What’s the most creative way that you know of to say “I Love You”?
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