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Wordsmith Legacy Letter Package


It is often a challenge to give a fixed price for a writing/editing project because of the numerous unknown factors – how long it is, how much editing is required, how many photos will be incorporated, and the like – but, from the buyer’s perspective, there is often a desire to know what’s involved in fees before making a commitment.

To simplify matters in the case of Legacy Letters, we have defined a “standard” Legacy Letter Package and charge a flat fee of $175. The general terms of this standard package are described below.

Deliverables

Beginning with the end in mind, Wordsmith Associates will deliver:

  • a finished letter up to 5,000 words in length (~20 double-spaced pages), printed in B&W or color in high-resolution on acid-free linen paper (white or ivory) – 3 copies – with:
    • professional fonts appropriate for the letter
    • agreed-upon color scheme for printed text and graphic elements
    • inclusion of up to 3 images (scanned)
    • inclusion of author’s signature (scanned)
  • protective storage envelope
  • electronic copy of the finished letter as a high-resolution PDF
  • all source files (in native format) created in the process of completing the letter

Writer Responsibilities

To create these final deliverables, the writer of the Legacy Letter will be timely in providing:

  • an original draft of the letter in electronic form
  • an updated draft based on comments and suggestions made
  • review and approval of edited draft
  • original art for photos and other images
  • decisions regarding fonts, colors, document design, and other format matters
  • final acceptance of the finished work

Wordsmith Responsibilities

In helping to create the finished letter, Wordsmith Associates will provide:

  • resources to assist the author in deciding what to include in the Legacy Letter
  • reactions to the author’s draft and suggestions for improvement (one round)
  • editing to ensure grammatical accuracy and consistency (one round)
  • overall document design plan, addressing font selection, page format, use of artistic motifs, content organization, and image placement
  • high-level work schedule and targeted deadlines

Once a client indicates interest in purchasing a standard Legacy Letter Package, there will be a preliminary scoping discussion and Wordsmith Associates will provide a letter agreement that, when agreed by the client, will serve to guide and govern the work.

ADD-ON Services and Change Orders

There is nothing to preclude enhancements or modifications to the standard package but, to make that happen, the changes will be discussed, priced, and agreed, then documented in the letter agreement.

Some of the enhancements/modifications desired by clients may include:

  • Longer content
  • More help in generating content
  • Multiple document sources
  • Additional round(s) of author draft review
  • Additional round(s) of text editing
  • Additional images
  • Additional copies
  • Special printing needs
  • Special binding
  • Decorative envelope(s)

Similarly, if in the course of the work the client requests services that were not part of the originally scoped work, Wordsmith Associates will identify the change, the change in services will be discussed and priced, and a change order (modifying the prior letter agreement) will be prepared and agreed before work begins on the revised services.

 

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WRITINGS ON THE WALL

  • Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. –Horace, Epistles
  • How long a time lies in one little word! Such is the breath of kings. –Shakespeare, King Richard II
  • The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work and that writing didn’t require any. –Russell Baker, Growing Up
  • Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your action. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. –Anonymous
  • Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, and universal darkness buries all. –Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
  • It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some irradiating word. –Alexander Smith, “Dreamthorp,” On the Writing of Essays
  • Prête-moi ta plume pour écrire un mot. Lend me your pen to write a word. –Au Clair de la Lune
  • I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long Words Bother me. –Alan Alexander Milne, Willie-the-Pooh
  • Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can’t write, can surely review. –James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics
  • All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. –Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
  • Life's like a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. –Jim Henson, The Muppet Movie
  • A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator. –John Steinbeck, “In Awe of Words”
  • The writer doesn’t want success ... The writer wants to leave a scratch on the wall of oblivion that someone a hundred or a thousand years later will see. Kilroy was here. –William Faulkner, Faulkner in the University
  • How many verses have I thrown into the fire because the one peculiar word, the wanted most, was irrecoverably lost. –Walter Savage Landor, Verses Why Burnt
  • My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts –never to heaven go. –Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • Good words are worth much … and cost little. –George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
  • Honeyed words like bees, gilded and sticky, with a little sting. –Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Pretty Words
  • In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. –Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous
  • To call forth a concept, a word is needed; to portray a phenomenon, a concept is needed. All three mirror one and the same reality. –Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Traité Elémentaire de Chimie
  • Words are like leaves and, where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. –Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
  • Man’s word is God in man. –Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Idylls of the King,” The Coming of Arthur
  • “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” –Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. –The Common Gospel, “Eternal Word”
  • The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. –Paul Simon, The Sound of Silence
  • Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact. It is silence which isolates. –Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
  • Choice word and measured phrase… above the reach of ordinary men. –William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence
  • And many a word, at random spoken, may soothe a wound or heart that’s broken. –Sir Walter Scott, Lord of the Isles
  • Sweet religion makes a rhapsody of words. –Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • Word is a shadow of deed. –Democritus
  • So is a word better than a gift. –Apocrypha
  • Omit needless words. –William Strunk, Jr, The Elements of Style
  • The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it. –Ernest Hemingway, Paris Review
  • Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. –Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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