Ink, Ache and Intention: How to Pen a Love Note

A gothic guide to writing letters that bleed with romance, longing and the kind of words that the soul remembers.

In a world of vanishing texts and fleeting DMs, the love note remains deliciously defiant—ink pressed to paper, destined to be kept in a drawer, beneath a pillow or between the pages of a well-worn novel. 

National Love Note Day (Sept 26) invites us to resurrect this ritual. For romantics, and/or anyone with an ache too heavy for the screen, the art of the letter is both spell and surrender.

Before we get into our how-to guide, we reflect on history’s most enduring love notes that remind us why ink endures where breath cannot.