How to write an informal letter
We are social beings and we need to communicate among ourselves, we can do it in many different ways but since the beginning of civilizations people have written to their friends or family members in letters. Then in the nineteenth century after the invention of telegraph and telephone people could communicate quickly and also converse orally but in the twentieth century and onwards we also share our personal experiences, opinions, information not only using the written words in letters or postcards but also by e-mails that are sent to our relatives or friends. These informal letters can be quite short or long and they can be creative, sensitive or emotional which depends on the purpose of it and the person addressed. The language can be colloquial and contain contractions, neologisms, etc. and though they can be quite open and imaginative, there is an essential pattern to comply for informal letters: