tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504709018372694742.post931662453757851397..comments2023-09-05T08:39:17.610-07:00Comments on Immaculate Novelists Kult: Low-teching ItKamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00531243633193697440noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504709018372694742.post-10241859286857753732007-05-25T14:17:00.000-07:002007-05-25T14:17:00.000-07:00I'd love to have a real old fashioned kind, but it...I'd love to have a real old fashioned kind, but it would be more of a shrine than a tool for me. I love those old machines!<BR/><BR/>But now I am the proud new owner of a Brother GX 6750! And I love it! And I'm really very rusty at using a typewriter. You'd think for someone who types all the time, it wouldn't matter, but it is very different using a typewriter than a computer. No automatic return, no cut and paste, no global search and replace. And I couldn't be happier! I'm much more mindful of the words I'm putting on paper when they are more or less committed once they are typed. Sure, I can go back a few words, almost a whole line, and automatically correct it, but two or three paragraphs? Not going to happen without white out and a pencil. <BR/><BR/>Did I mention I couldn't be happier? Now to print out all my rough drafts and build folders and all that fun stuff!C. Jane Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00131009339900981548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504709018372694742.post-7470103328173436852007-05-25T10:29:00.000-07:002007-05-25T10:29:00.000-07:00Wait, are you talking about an electric typewriter...Wait, are you talking about an electric typewriter? I thought you were talking about a real old fashioned typewriter, the no-electric kind.C.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03405230532317363372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504709018372694742.post-74155122778445475292007-05-24T10:23:00.000-07:002007-05-24T10:23:00.000-07:00Ooo, writing while camping sounds like excellent f...Ooo, writing while camping sounds like excellent fun! <BR/><BR/>I'd forgotten about the handwritten rewrites on the pages. Those feel and work so much differently than editing on the page, too. I remember adding whole sections by hand on the backs of the pages that sometimes went for several pages. <BR/><BR/>Hmm. Inspired to print out Masks now ...Kamihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00531243633193697440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504709018372694742.post-43726373294344204462007-05-24T09:22:00.000-07:002007-05-24T09:22:00.000-07:00They are vastly different, aren't they? I still re...They are vastly different, aren't they? I still remember sheets of my very first novel attempt, way back in junior high. Full of white out and hand written in words and phrases and sentences. <BR/><BR/>I did get up this morning and sit at the kitchen table with a notebook and tea and madeleines. It felt great. Outlined a section of my script that way. But I can't wait to have a typewriter. <BR/><BR/>Mom said I could bring it along on our camping trip! We'll have electricity in the camper. Hee. I can sit at the little dining table there and tap tap tap away!C. Jane Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00131009339900981548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504709018372694742.post-9746523900699966452007-05-24T07:34:00.000-07:002007-05-24T07:34:00.000-07:00How very awesome! I miss my typewriter too.I wond...How very awesome! I miss my typewriter too.<BR/><BR/>I wonder if my mom still has it.<BR/><BR/>Hmmm.<BR/><BR/>It's certainly feels different writing that way, just like handwriting is vastly different.<BR/><BR/>I don't miss retyping pages and white out, though. Heh. On ours we used an erase sheet, which was a little better, but still--on a rough draft, though, who cares if there are typos!<BR/><BR/>Kitchen table writing. How very kewl.Kamihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00531243633193697440noreply@blogger.com