Your work that you considered perfect was and still is perfect for its space in time. Look with inspiration at people who face graver challenges and you will find that their very example motivates you to cherish your perfect article or book and be proud of it. Today is a new day, and yesterday’s prefect book may need a little dusting, or polishing to meet your perfect stamp of approval for today.

Perfection is what you perceive it as, and this holds true for every other person in world. It may not be one person’s idea of perfection, so job at hand is to match your perfection with publisher or editor who will consider it “perfection” when right moment in time comes along.

The only mistake you can make will be to give up and quit. Quitting is nobody’s idea of perfection and it will never be. If you quit, it is failure - right down to that last sentence, that last period. The ONLY time you fail is when you quit. Your article or book can never be given chance to be perfect to anyone at anytime. You wrote “The End” and closed cover. ©Arleen M. Kaptur

Would you please report as soon as possible to Jim Jackson, Chief of Human Resources so that details of your appointment may be properly documented.

Congratulations Jessica! All of us here at MedWay Systems Inc. look forward to continuing to work with you in future.

Sincerely,

Sharon Smithson Manager, Customer Support Group

ADVANTAGES OF REAL-LIFE TEMPLATES

Clearly, "model" that most of us would rather work with, if we had to write a similar letter, is definitely second one, "real-life" template.

You can relate to it. It talks about real-life people in a real-life situation that you can identify with. And, you get to see exactly how a professional worded it.

There are other advantages to "real-life" templates.

Fully-Formatted Final Versions: "Real-life" templates are fully-formatted as final documents so that you can see exactly how they looked when they were sent out in a "real-life" situation. They don't look like some kind of "draft" form letter.

Content With Value: Working with "real-life" templates, it is much easier to adapt them to YOUR actual situations because they give you visual and intellectual cues that you can relate to.

Naturally, when you see how a copywriter or consultant has dealt with a "real-life" scenario, in terms of word choice, context, and punctuation, it is much easier to adapt to real-life situation that you are writing for. In that way, actual content has value.

Easy To Work With: "Real-life" templates are just as easy to work with as other templates. You simply load them into your word processing program and edit and adjust them to fit your own specific situation. Presto! You have a fully formatted real-life letter ready to be printed and sent out in mail.

You also have comfort of knowing that what you are sending has already been used in other "real-life" situations.

Real-Life Content: With real-life templates, it is much easier to find an adaptable "fit" for situation you are writing for. Not only do they give you final format of a document, their content provides an excellent real-life sample and gives food-for-thought to assist you in writing process.

SAMPLE REAL-LIFE TEMPLATES

For illustration purposes, here are a couple of sample "real-life" letter templates and one "real-life" resume template from my Writing Help Central web site:

http://www.writinghelp-central.com/cover-letter.html

http://www.writinghelp-central.com hank-you-letter.html

http://www.writinghelp-central.com/resume-sample2.html

Now I ask you, would you rather work from a "fill-in-the- blanks" generic template. or a fully-formatted "real-life" template?