"Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day. "
It's hard to say sorry, much less offer up a long-winded apology. So let your feelings out with a letter expressing your remorse instead.
In some languages, as in English and French, the modern freezing of spelling has removed the writing more and more from pronunciation and has resulted in the need to teach spelling and the growth of fallacies like the "silent" letter (a letter is really either the symbol of a sound or it is unnecessary).