I love the idea :) When I had more time for penpalling, I filled out a few for friends and always enjoyed it. I'm a bit sad I never did one of my own, it would be great to have something to remember of all those nice people - I'm still in touch with quite a few, but by far not with all and not in such an intense way.
But back to your questions: I would make the length, both page-wise and regarding how long the answers to the question should be variable. So - perhaps a page or two with very basic info where you write the questions down yourself (whether by hand or in a nice layout) and a list of questions x pages to answer them? I always hated it when I had more to say then there was space for or only had a short answer while the amount of space hinted on the expectation of a longer answer.
I love the "where do you see yourself in X years" kind of question - not for the very moment, but for re-reading it in X years.
And if I were to make the book, I would ask people to design/illustrate their own pages. Perhaps just with a bit of very basic border or corner decoration to tie them all together.
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Date: 2011-06-25 08:13 pm (UTC)But back to your questions: I would make the length, both page-wise and regarding how long the answers to the question should be variable. So - perhaps a page or two with very basic info where you write the questions down yourself (whether by hand or in a nice layout) and a list of questions x pages to answer them? I always hated it when I had more to say then there was space for or only had a short answer while the amount of space hinted on the expectation of a longer answer.
I love the "where do you see yourself in X years" kind of question - not for the very moment, but for re-reading it in X years.
And if I were to make the book, I would ask people to design/illustrate their own pages. Perhaps just with a bit of very basic border or corner decoration to tie them all together.