1 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2021 12:20 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
I don't know what to say, it's so, so beautiful. The whole story is fantastic, but this chapter is special to me.
Thank you!
10 [Report This]Date: September 17, 2009 08:37 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
so random, but omg i love that song.
Date: April 24, 2008 05:00 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
Sentimental makes me smile! As long as it is a good sentimental. Is there a bad sentimental?
"Jim carefully scratches out the yatt and prints alpert above it. "
HAHAHA! LOVE IT!
I write letters to my friends about once a year. And that kind of reminds me I owe a friend an RSVP to her wedding. But anyways, back to letters. I used to have a lon snail mail thing with one of my friends. Our letters would be like 20 pages long. I always felt sorry for her, because my writing was horrendus. I try to write neatly but then it would deterorate for a few pages, I would attempt the neat thing again. It wasn't pretty.
And I don't want to think about my parents in love. Seems so foreign to me.
"He wants to tell her things that aren’t funny." It seems strange to read that, but its true.
Author's Response: Old fashioned letters are really a lost art...glad you could relate to that. And yeah, I think the idea of your parents in lurve is a weird idea for a lot of people...but, it kind of imprinted Jim, so lucky Pam. You are a prolific reviewer, Emily!
10 [Report This]Date: November 12, 2007 01:00 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
I don't think this chapter was excessively sentimental. It felt real and heavy with the need to let your partner know just how much you love them, how much you need them. I really enjoyed the imagery of young Jim reading letters from his dad. The first time I read a love letter from my dad to my mom, it was so intense and I realized that they had this whole life before I was born... they had inside jokes and nicknames and a level of intimacy that I couldn't even begin to fathom until I was much, much older. Beautiful chapter (and beautiful song! God Bless Joni Mitchell.)!!
Author's Response:
Seriously, who knows heartfelt, soulful love affairs better than Joni Mitchell, lol?
Your take is precisely what I hoped would come through re: Jim finding his parents love letters - I always imagined him growing up with parents who truly loved each other, and the impact that had on him, on how deeply he's able to love Pam. So happy you could relate to it so well too, heartcarved.
Date: September 26, 2007 10:10 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
this is such a lovely thread. i really liked this one, though - there is something so old school romantic about jim writing love letters to pam. it's one of my favourite things that we writers force him to do :)
Author's Response: So pleased you're enjoying these. You know, I'd read lots of fics where they email or IM each other, but I couldn't remember one where he writes her an old fashioned, in his own handwriting, love letter. Somebody had to make it happen, lol. Thanks Emily!
10 [Report This]Date: September 13, 2007 05:59 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
I'm pretty sure you've set some sort of record here -- I think I've run the gamut of emotions here (beginning with a snort at Hyatt and culminating in serious tears at the love letters).
Sentimental gets an unfairly bad wrap, IMHO; this was absolutely beautiful - the fabric upon which our lives are woven (if we're really lucky).
The callbacks to "The Convention" were really like a hit to the gut, which only made the context here that much sweeter.
Somehow you always take that gem good old G. Daniels has given us and polish it to a sheen that's simply brilliant.
Hats off, seriously.
And uh, yeah, it moved me -- did I mention that?? :o)
Author's Response: I'm thrilled the love letter idea seemed to strike a chord...it just seemed right (write?) to me. Like a really private, intimate, quiet way that Jim might verbalize how he felt and she could quite literally 'own' it. Glad it didn't come across as too schmoopy, cause that was my fear. I owe it all to Joni ;-) but I appreciate your comments all the same!
Date: September 13, 2007 04:03 am Title: Want to write you a love letter
Oh, Colette! I wore this album out years ago! This:
He considers opening his letter with a lame joke about the convention renewing his commitment to paper. But he doesn’t, because they have plenty of jokes already. He wants to tell her things that aren’t funny.
is perfect Jim. I think we need to read through Pam's box of love letters and you need to write them.
Author's Response: I figured I wasn't the only one with some well worn vinyl Joni. I hadn't thought about Blue in ages, then suddenly got a yen to hear it - asked one of my kids to burn it onto a CD and it still holds up SO well. Some great Pam/Jim-ish lyrics too. Glad you thought Jim rang true here...hmm, a whole fic written in his love letters? Might be interesting... Thanks so much sweatpea!
Date: September 11, 2007 08:11 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
::sigh:: I love that! Colette you totally make sentimental Jim and Pam work here! Not only work -- but glow. I especially loved the part where he talked about NOT wanting it to be funny...they had enough jokes. PERFECT. I can totally see Jim doing something like this.
Author's Response: He would write her love letters - it's agreed! LOL. And glad you mentioned that part - funny as Jim is, I think he'd really want Pam to know how seriously he takes 'them' (and, Earnest/Heartfelt Jim? One of my personal favorite Jims.) Thanks, as ever, LoveFool!
10 [Report This]Date: September 11, 2007 05:39 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
So very, very sweet. I have 89 letters in a box from the year my husband (then boyfriend) spent apart. They are my treasure. And your talent for capturing these voices and their true emotions is a treasure, too.
Author's Response: 89?!? I'm impressed! And thank you so much nqllisi...I'm flattered (and it means a lot coming from such a good writer like you!)
10 [Report This]Date: September 11, 2007 06:40 am Title: Want to write you a love letter
Aww, this chapter made me cry! How sweet! I wish I had someone to write me love letters...
And I liked the part about Jim finding his parents' love letters when he was a kid. It's so true how parents have these lives that we, as kids were never aware of.
Author's Response: Sorry to make you cry! But so pleased you liked this. And also that the parents thing seems to be striking a chord - I like the idea that part of his being able to love her so deeply is what he was exposed to early on. How's that for sentimental, LOL? Thanks much, PuffingNoise.
10 [Report This]Date: September 11, 2007 02:23 am Title: Want to write you a love letter
That's really beautiful. :)
Author's Response: And that's very kind of you to say...thanks much, Cassandra Mulder!
10 [Report This]Date: September 11, 2007 02:00 am Title: Want to write you a love letter
this is exactly what i needed. i LOVE hand-written letters. e-mail to me seems so impersonal. there's just this rush when you get a hand-written letter, it's like the person writing is saying, "i had you on my mind and i just had to share something with you, and i want it to be this tangible thing that you can have for always."
can you tell i likey the sentiment?
Author's Response: Well, I'm with you - email is great for many things. But nothing beats a real love letter. So pleased this worked for you, StarShine - and thanks so much for reviewing.
10 [Report This]Date: September 10, 2007 08:11 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
I absolutely love that! I want a box of love letters ;)
Author's Response: Would be a lovely thing to have, wouldn't it (especially from Jim)? Thank you, JennInTheCity!
Date: September 10, 2007 06:45 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
That's very sweet. I like how your stories are always full of little details like his scratching out yatt and replacing it by alpert. A letter does sound up the romantic alley of Mr. Halpert. :)
Author's Response: And I like how you always notice the details (kind of liked the stationery tampering one you noted myself.) He would write her a love letter, wouldn't he? Thanks, MA!
10 [Report This]Date: September 10, 2007 06:42 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
Divine! Just simply divine. I'm a big fan of love letters and it's a shame that the advent of the email has pretty much made them obsolete.
I would have just loved to have read Jim's letter, but it was equally fitting that you didn't allow us to peak in.
Author's Response: Divine? Wow! And, yeah, as I said below, I wanted this to be more internal, just his thoughts about her, why he wanted to commit them to paper forever, etc. rather than literally showing the letter - just as you noted: that's just for Pam to see. And, could I be any cornier? LOL. Thanks so much StarryDreamer for the lovely review.
Date: September 10, 2007 06:34 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
Ugh. So beautiful. Miss Colette, you are the master! Describing Jim as a kid finding his parents love letters was so spot on. As a kid, it's really mind blowing when you first realize that your parents had a whole life before you ever came around. And I loved how you just described what he was writing about instead of showing the actual letter. I think Pam would like to have a hidden box of love letters, too. :-)
Author's Response: Aw, thank you so much supergirlsudz. I just imagined realizing that about his parents, at that age, would inform the way he thought about love and such. And yeah - I wanted to focus on his thoughts re: what/why he wanted to write, rather than the actual letter. Much appreciate your thoughtful comments.
Date: September 10, 2007 06:17 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
nice!
Author's Response: Thanks, batman29!
9 [Report This]Date: September 10, 2007 05:52 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
1970 an excellent year. ;)
I have a box of engraved stationary - and in today's day and age it gathers dust for the most part.
This is so lovely colette. I'm finding it hard to find words to do it justice.
So I'll just thanks for sharing it.
Author's Response:
Yes, 1970 was a fine vintage for so many things ;-)
I say dust off that stationery and write someone a love letter...something tells me you'd be good at it. Happy this worked bor you....and thanks, as always, xoxoxo!
8 [Report This]Date: September 10, 2007 05:49 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
This was so sweet and romantic. I have a box of love letters from Mr. Kaystar from before we were married (pre-internet.) Wonderful chapter! I love JAM love.
Author's Response: Yes, the internet is a wonderful thing, but it pretty much wrecked real letter writing (especially love letters.) Lucky you to have a stash! Thanks so much kaystar - I love it JAM lurve too (not that it shows or anything...)
Date: September 10, 2007 05:04 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
Jim a romantic? I'm just not seeing it. HA! This was so beautiful because of his need to express to Pam what she means to him, and I could see this being something he would enjoy doing. And Jim doing anything in his underwear is a good thing:) Thanks for this!
Author's Response: You always see right through me - it's all a ruse to get that boy in his skivvies. And I agree...this whole romantic thing is so far fetched. Jim who? LOL. Anyway, happy to hear you thought this was believable. Thanks much, bitterpill.
Date: September 10, 2007 04:59 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
Wow -- I really hope we get to see some recurrence of events (Dundies, Convention, Halloween, anything) in S4 so we can see the contrast of pre-Jam and post-Jam.
This is sweet and lovely. Hope that's not too trite a review.
Author's Response:
Yes, terribly trite. Now take it back! Hee. Are you kidding?
And you know, I was kind of thinking just that - how different his experience at the convention, his whole life really, is now. Doing a before/after Dundies would be great too. Thanks, Lisa!!
10 [Report This]Date: September 10, 2007 04:44 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
*tear*
So, so sweet. Love how he discovered the private universe his parents lived in, and the decision to abandon the jokes and just tell her on paper (how appropriate) how he feels -- again. And now I have to know what Cousin Mose (the one on the show, not the one on MTT) is going to do with that shower cap. Beautiful, Colette.
Author's Response: Why thank you! Somehow I could just imagine Jim finding those letters and it sort of helping form his consciousness of the love thing. (Am I articulate tonight, or what, LOL?) Ah, Mose and the shower cap...so many possibilities.....
Date: September 10, 2007 04:38 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
That was beautiful and I love Joni Mitchell! I love that Jim is soooooo in love with Pam. It's so sweet. <3
Author's Response: Sometimes you just need a little Joni ;-) Glad you liked. Thanks, Abigail!
10 [Report This]Date: September 10, 2007 04:34 pm Title: Want to write you a love letter
Very sweet. Very Jim, really. Tell me again why the greatest minds of this earth haven't gotten together and had him cloned??
Author's Response: Do I sense a new Moxie fic waiting to happen? The Cloning of Jim Halpert? Maybe Pam could do it in a petrie dish in her desk drawer, like Creed with his mung beans. Thanks, you (can you tell I'm punchy?)