I have few recommendation letters to write. This one ended up being 557 words. Between writing and editing it took about three hours. A good letter is very difficult to do. The books I’ve been reading had a very positive impact on the quality of the writing in the letter. I was able to fashion a better story by rethinking a lot of sentence structures – that forced me to find better ways to tell the audience what I want them to know while keeping them engaged. I also paid attention to where in each sentence and paragraph the important words were.