Secret Letter Writing The Stories of Six Strong Women and an Artist For me creative process is like writing secret letters to people who will never get to read them. It's preparation for the talking, which I'm not so good at. Secret letters are safe, you can write everything you think and feel, which for me is a lot more than I’d ever tell the person who isn’t going to get the letter. By the time I actually talk to the person whom the letter addresses, the version they get