UGH I do so love your writing. I’ve always been tempted to try a typewriter but as someone who learned to type in 2nd grade in 1989 on an Apple Mackintosh, I’ll never be first-pass accurate enough to be satisfied with the way my work looks on one. Best wishes on your novels!! 😍
I have a friend that has a collection of OLD typewriters and I'm fascinated by them. We had an old manual typewriter when I was growing up in the '60s, and I loved pretending I was typing something important on it. My mother was a real estate agent, and she would type up her house sale contracts on it, and when the contract format would change she would give me her old, outdated carbon contracts to pretend with. Such fun for a 7-year-old.
yeah we're good / my first self-published collection of poetry was called 'Learning to Scribble' and was written in part on an old manual typewriter I bought somewhere so i could get the distinctive shape of each unique key strike / the decay / the blur of a firmly struck apostrophe / the fading at the bottom of the letters as if they were growing up out of the paper / i thought it was romantic and infact it was / i still have that book - one copy anyways of all those i ran off at kinko's copy center and had spiral bound professionally so it would lay flat when you opened it and not have a memory and then i gave them all away to friends : )
I was swapping notes with Mikey at Cosmographia about typewriters this week. Now, just catching up with my 'saved for later' reads and this beguiling tale stopped me in my tracks. What a life of words. Gorgeous. Thank you
It's amazing that you kept the typewriter, and that it still worked! I learned qwerty on a manual and took my exams reaching the highest grade available. I'm forever grateful that I learned that skill, it has been a joy to produce words at speed.
UGH I do so love your writing. I’ve always been tempted to try a typewriter but as someone who learned to type in 2nd grade in 1989 on an Apple Mackintosh, I’ll never be first-pass accurate enough to be satisfied with the way my work looks on one. Best wishes on your novels!! 😍
I have a friend that has a collection of OLD typewriters and I'm fascinated by them. We had an old manual typewriter when I was growing up in the '60s, and I loved pretending I was typing something important on it. My mother was a real estate agent, and she would type up her house sale contracts on it, and when the contract format would change she would give me her old, outdated carbon contracts to pretend with. Such fun for a 7-year-old.
yeah we're good / my first self-published collection of poetry was called 'Learning to Scribble' and was written in part on an old manual typewriter I bought somewhere so i could get the distinctive shape of each unique key strike / the decay / the blur of a firmly struck apostrophe / the fading at the bottom of the letters as if they were growing up out of the paper / i thought it was romantic and infact it was / i still have that book - one copy anyways of all those i ran off at kinko's copy center and had spiral bound professionally so it would lay flat when you opened it and not have a memory and then i gave them all away to friends : )
I was swapping notes with Mikey at Cosmographia about typewriters this week. Now, just catching up with my 'saved for later' reads and this beguiling tale stopped me in my tracks. What a life of words. Gorgeous. Thank you
It's amazing that you kept the typewriter, and that it still worked! I learned qwerty on a manual and took my exams reaching the highest grade available. I'm forever grateful that I learned that skill, it has been a joy to produce words at speed.