If you are considering giving someone a piece of your writing as a gift, now is the time to begin working on it. You want to have plenty of time to polish and refine whatever piece, poetry or prose, you want to give.
In my posts for giving gifts at Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, I offered suggestions and tips for different styles of writing. Last Christmas, I described writing down holiday disasters for posterity.
This Christmas, if you are feeling ambitious, I recommend keeping a journal of all the holiday related activities you do. If your journal is messy, like mine, polish your entries and transfer them into a form you can give away. If you have children, and their grandparents live far away, this gift is an especially meaningful gift.
If you feel extraordinarily ambitious, and like to have very long-term goals, you can keep a journal of what your kids do each Christmas, and then give them a compilation of these journals when they are old enough to appreciate it.
But as I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again, no matter what writing you do
Edit it!
You only want to give your best efforts.
Have you ever given a gift of writing to someone? If so, what was it?
My sister gave our parents a Christmas poem one year and it is still one of my favorites and I like to read it each year!!