Examples Of Thank You Notes

These examples of thank you notes are for different occasions. You may write a thank you note for a wedding, birthdays, interviews, thank you notes to teachers, funerals, kind gestures, graduations, sympathies, sickness, baby showers, etc. When you write a thank you notice to someone for one of these occasions think about how the person inspired you there and write to them how they made you feel. You may want to also include a thank you poem for your friend.

Here is an example of a thank you note poem if someone did donation work for you.

Ashley when you loaded those flowers in my house

You did so with such fine stride

And yet you smiled most of the time

I ordered you around, you swallowed your pride

Watered the plants as you sang your rhyme.

You worked hard that day

And your efforts bloomed pink orange and yellow

The faces of this green house ride high

When the sun hits those flowers

That you watered for hours.

Occasionally there is a soil

That has a smell like olive oil

Like a familiar ocean beach tide

In the greenhouse where your flowers bloom

And the sprays circle like a monsoon.

Thank you for your hard work

More plants still should grow from it

They'll abide by your walk

Through the greenhouse working overtime

Doing a great job.

Writing thank you letters doesn't have to be complicated. Just let the words come to you while you see the situation. Remember how the person helped you like I did in this poem. I wrote about how Ashley worked hard to help load those flowers in the green house and how when she worked she smiled and was happy. Here is another thank you note sample for a graduation.

You were there for me when I threw my cap

Sang and laughed with me there

When in five second swirling hats filled the air

As the smiles that filled the room

That you helped build when you were there.

Thank you Matt for your cheer

When I went on stage I was ok

You yelled my name and things weren't the same

Thank you for your company

Thank you for your support.

This wasn't the best thank you note but even if you can't think of something up there, the note doesn't have to be brilliant. Write according to what you remember and just write. Its kind of like the saying, 90% of doing the job is just being there and showing up.

What is a Flashback?

A flashback according to Wikipedia is, "the interruption of a narrative by the interpolation chronological sequence of events that occurred previously." It is therefore a form of anachronism.

When we tell a story, it usually follows a natural time sequence - the events are narrated in the order of occurrence. When, in the middle of this sequence, we introduce a scene that occurred before that time we call it a flashback scene.

Introducing a little more theory, a flashback could be "internal" (refers to an earlier time but still within the narrative) or "external" (refers to a time prior to the beginning of the narrative).

Flashbacks usually occur in the narrative in response to a stimulus. For example, one character sees or hears something that brings to mind a past event. Juno looks at an abandoned chair and recalls the afternoon he made love with his best friend; Rose sees the sketch and recalls the night she spent with Jack.

In the first example (the film "Juno"), a visual stimulus (could be auditory, olfactory, sensory, etc.) introduces a quick flashback scene. The narrative then returns to its normal course. This is perhaps the most common form.

In the second example (the film "Titanic"), the story begins in the present, but after Rose's character, now elderly, gets confronted with the testimonies of its past, enters into a long flashback that tells the essential story and thus becomes a natural narrative sequence.

Some writers such as Guillermo Arriaga and James Cameron use so many flashbacks and flash-forwards in their writing that at some point a natural narrative simply ceases to exist. This is termed as anachronistic narrative.

When to avoid the use of flashback?

Some screenwriters are averse to the use of flashbacks, but it's mostly because of the misuse of this technique, rather than a drawback of the resource itself. Such misuse often happens when the flashback is used simply to transmit information needed to solve some aspect of the narrative. In this case, as in any other purely expository scene, the flashback is used as a crutch and reveals the laziness of the author. Flashbacks should not used to plug loopholes in the narrative.

Flashback format

Writing a flashback is no big deal. Apply exactly the same rules as you'd for any other scene. In short, we should only write what can be shown (visually) or heard (auditory) in the film. No use writing thoughts, emotions, hopes or other things that do not have a visual or audible translation. Only actions, gestures, words and expressions which can be narrated using the resources of the cinema should be included.